Private Road question

[jjlajj]

TX - We own land and the road that goes into it off of the highway is party county. Orginally it was up to the cattle guard that the county removed some yrs back. We had our own cattle guard put in up from where the county road ended and our land began. We find out today that the county commissioner put in yrs back to make the road county all the way up to our cattle guard. He says it is a done deal bc it was in the paper and we never disputed it. We were never contaced!! We didn't realize it even happened!! How can the county steal our road?? They say they have 'maintained' it for years which is total lies! What are our rights??

 

[FarmerJ]

Your county board should be able to assist you with actual documentation showing when it was done or perhaps your counties public works dept can show you when it was made into a county road , BTW food for thought, but it would take a lot of research and homework on your part but if indeed this road was made into county road and you have your property surveyed to show how the road is situated compared to your boundries and if the road is entirely with in your land then couple things to think about, do you want to carefully review your counties records so you can determine if it was to be maintained by them did you pay taxes that went for maint of that road (search for your counties definition of min maint roads where they basically do nothing then see if this road is one of them) there has to be something in the county budget records that spells out its cost per X to maintain roads according to road classifications and some one should be able to provide you a very detailed break down of how your property taxes were used and if you paid for maint of the road or not. (if you paid for maint of the road and no maint was done then you will have to figure out is it worth taking legal action against your county to get a partial refund or a temporary reduction out of them as well as your learning via past records what the county paid for land taken from land owners for county roads so you can figure out if they had routinely paid in the past then to include a settlement from them.

 

[HomeGuru]

TX - We own land and the road that goes into it off of the highway is party county. Orginally it was up to the cattle guard that the county removed some yrs back. We had our own cattle guard put in up from where the county road ended and our land began. We find out today that the county commissioner put in yrs back to make the road county all the way up to our cattle guard. He says it is a done deal bc it was in the paper and we never disputed it. We were never contaced!! We didn't realize it even happened!! How can the county steal our road?? They say they have 'maintained' it for years which is total lies! What are our rights??

**A: you need to hire an attorney to do the research and advise you accordingly. It appears there was some sort of notice by publication on an eminent domain issue. But you should have been notified and the county should have paid you just compensation for the land they took. Or may be, the road was county to begin with, you were just using it and the county then took it back to clear title.