Lea v. . Johnson
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from the Superior Court of Law of Caswell County, at Spring Term, 184S, his Honor Judge Peabson presiding. This was a case, originally commenced in the County Court by a petition for a cart-way, and thence carried by appeal to the Superior Court of Caswell County. The petition set forth that the petitioner.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Law of Caswell County, at Spring Term, 184S, his Honor Judge Peabson presiding. This was a case, originally commenced in the County Court by a petition for a cart-way, and thence carried by appeal to the Superior Court of Caswell County. The petition set forth that the petitioner. James, was the owner, and was cultivating a valuable tract of land, on which was situated a public mill on Cobb Creek, which runs through the said land; that the said land was situated about a mile and one half to the nearest point of it from Leasburg, and the mill about two miles ;…
1Opinion of the CourtPearson, J.
When this case was heard on the circuit, I was so entirely satisfied that the cart-way petitioned for would be a matter of great convenience to the petitioners, and other citizens of Leasburg and its vicinity, by giving them a road to mill not exceeding two miles in distance, instead of a round-about road, over bad' ground, exceeding four miles, that my attention was directed from a particular examination of the Statute, and 1 contented myself with a general impression, that the meaning of the Act was to establish a third sort of road, called a cart-way, intermediate between a public road,…
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