There's a road in Galena, Kansas called Wood Street. It runs north and south, but on the north end, Wood Street is now closed and one Galena resident claims he can no longer access his land because of it. Tonight, Dustin Lattimer takes action to find out why the city of Galena vacated the northern end of Wood Street, causing a dispute and two lawsuits between Royce Cantrell and the city.

Royce Cantrell and his family live on Wood Street in Galena. Cantrell's home is separate from his other property, which is further down the road. There's just one problem: The road's asphalt ends a few hundred feet before reaching Cantrell's property. "For the last 2 1/2 years the city has made repeated attempts to vacate Wood Street which leads to our property," says Wood Street resident, Royce Cantrell. According to survey markers and city road maps, Wood Street should extend all the way to Cantrell's property. "There's no denying that it is a plated road, we know that, but it had never been a road," says Galena Mayor, Dale Oglesby. "I have requested and even offered to help the city to level out the driving surface and spread gravel over a driving surface so that at least ourselves, potential buyers, and anyone else who wants to can drive through their without tearing up a vehicle," says Cantrell.

There's one obstacle which sits between the asphalt and Cantrell's property: A concrete slab, left over from a previous building. "They arrested me when I tried to remove the slab," says Cantrell. Cantrell says he offered several times to remove the slab, a process which he claims is not difficult. The mayor disagrees. "The concrete slab would be difficult to remove," says Mayor Oglesby. Mayor Oglesby says it's not in the best interest of the city to open up the northern end of Wood Street. "The city just has not felt that that was the right thing to do, to continue to build closer and closer to what's called, 'Hell's Half Acre,' a badly undermined area," says Mayor Oglesby. "Our land in that area is not undermined, it's approximately 300 feet from suspected undermined land," says Cantrell.

At one point, Cantrell planned to build homes on his property, but now that the city won't budge on opening the road to his property, Cantrell says he had no choice but to abandon those plans. "We feel the city is actually harassing and imposing restraints on us and our property," says Cantrell. "We don't want anything special, we want them to open the road and let us live our lives," says Royce Cantrell's wife, JoAnn Cantrell. "One person in the city can't come up and demand that you build a road here or build a road there, this is an entire community that we're responsible for so we have to do what's best for the community," says Mayor Oglesby.

Royce Cantrell now has a restraining order which prohibits the city of Galena from interfering with the the travel and use of Wood Street. Mayor oglesby says he is not aware of the document. "I don't even know what he's talking about," says Mayor Oglesby.

The mayor says he had no choice but to put up several dead-end, and road-closed signs because of something that, the mayor claims, Royce Cantrell did. "The dead end signs were erected this week in response to Mr. Cantrell digging a, I call it a booby trap, on the back side of the slab. Now it is extremely dangerous and that's why you see the number of dead end signs posted and it's a safety concern," says Mayor Oglesby. Royce Cantrell says the drop off on the north end of the slab has always been there and that he did not dig, what the mayor calls, a "trap." In part two of the "Galena Road Dispute," find out why Mr. Cantrell says he had no other option than to file a lawsuit.