DISPUTED RIGHT-OF-WAY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 620, 24 September 1909, Page 5

DISPUTED RIGHT-OF-WAY.

;;:;:-, vPUBLICj;ANp: : ;A;BACEC(3TJESE.vv;:i?i ;; /■.,v^lHjiTcjcErapl)'— PrrVa: -Anoeitttlonj: ' :, -v .v;j-. •'.': s;Wariganul, September , . 23/;. ! •; •A; - case -, of; 'cpnsiderable '•; interest; was .heard in the Supreme- Court ,by: Mr. -Justice Edwards to-day.■ affecting:therrignts.of::the publie';and ■the. trustees .'of ■ the. racecourse. -: A inumberi. of residents fat' ■.tht';'babk of, thb:cburs'e'aroVbeing •summoned,'for. trespass, ■■ and,- tho-.'caso Vis' to J have i,tho '.right'to cross over In. course ,of ;'evidonce, Mr. , . H.'-.C.:-Field,:,'6ur.vcyori : : and a' very' : old 'resident.r said'that,'-'in-.. 1851 : thero-was-.a' track .acrpss the, course,. and: to 'the best .of his belief tho -track!had:existed, .over; since./."■i'rbni 1 -.-1851 to 1870/■;witness;'often! went; aor.osS;th'e';.reserfiS, .which .up:tiU»thcn;was :i not fenced pff.'- As far :a'9:;-witnos3-kJicwi--th'ei". track "always ;loft/the..racecourso"a,t,the two points.now used for ontrancq;;nnd-:eiit.,: One. nouso : had boon at.;,the:.back" .of I', the .'course' eineb'y 1865 'pi ,: JBCO, nnd.the'only exit was through' the.cpurso.. Tho' res'erye' was' originally .granted for'r the., pur-* poses of public.utility, and was 'not 'nsed.W a training ; track :in the -;caTly' days: ••>.., 'Witness -laid.out .a .road round'the;rpservo,under orders' of 'tho.late secretary, of;the"Jockey.,Club,'as 4he. tracKs'-wore, dangerous -1 to' horses' ifl'-'.'.traini'n",■' ~a s _tho;c d ray'trnck";sbon had-.nits!;.formed 1 in* it ■;;The. .case; practically, hinges .on;.whether a riglit-ot:wayi has,,existedvoyer , the xourse.-'-In the r cvent..of,-.tho ; Jockey.Club -losind. the case;' 1 1-is',tl;ouKht;.moro .;than; probable' that, an ef-fort;-.wi11.., to.i.obtain'.another'coursb;.{