Rawls v. Warren

1. Highways - evidence insufficient to establish claim of public highway across adjoining lands - by virtue of deeds from common grantor. In suit by landowner claiming right to go across adjoining land of defendant to a public road by virtue of the existence of a public highway, where evidence showed that claimed public highway had been abandoned some 25 years before deeds were executed by the common grantor of the parties declaring that the deeds were subject to public roads as now laid out, maintained or used over the lands, complainant was not entitled to claim a public highway across the lands of defendant by virtue of the deeds from the common grantor. 2. Easements - by implication and necessity - evidence - proffered way practical - reasonable.