No ‘Public Road’ Status from Public Use 
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Published: January 18, 2012
Tags: Justice Lawrence L. Koontz Jr., Real Estate, Supreme Court of Virginia
Although the general public had for years used a “C.C.C. Road” built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps on private property in Highland County, the Supreme Court of Virginia says the trial court erred in finding that plaintiff Friends of the C.C.C. Road had established the road is public solely by virtue of ...
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