Ownership of Highways 175 



nets of the soil belong to the adjacent owner. 

 However, the timber may be used for bridges 

 and other betterments of the road under the same 

 rules as apply to the removal of soil. 



In this connection it may be well to say that 

 the adjacent owner has an undoubted right to 

 make any reasonable temporary use of the side of 

 the road, as for the piling of lumber or logs, or 

 for wagons and other farm implements, so long 

 as he does not interfere with the free use of the 

 highway; but he must remember that he is liable 

 for any damage which may be suffered by the 

 public thereby, and that a practically continuous 

 obstruction is unreasonable and not permissible. 



II. IMPASSABLE HIGHWAYS 



We may also note, at this point, the rule that 

 when a highway is temporarily obstructed or 

 impassable and there is no other way by which 

 the traveler may go without unreasonably delay- 

 ing his journey, and the obstruction is such as 

 cannot be readily removed without material delay, 

 he may then go outside of the highway and upon 

 the private lands adjacent, to pass around the 

 defective or obstructed portion of the highway; 

 but in so doing he must refrain from doing any 

 unnecessary damage. 



