McNeill v. North Carolina State Highway Commission

The question presented for determination is whether the plaintiffs had a property right which was taken or destroyed when the Commission permanently removed access to Interstate at Survey Station 131 + 70.

The Commission’s first contention is that" rio property rights were created in the original grantors in Survey Stations 167 + 73.9 and 131 + 70 because the Commission did not intend to create such rights. It is argued that the agreement did not contract away any right of access to this tract of land since access remained by way of the service road and that the references to the survey…