Gamble v. . McCrady
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ActioN, heard before ScheNCK, J., at Fall Term, 1875, of the Superior Court of GastoN County. The facts necessary to an understanding of the case are stated in the opinion of the Court. There was judgment in favor of the plaintiff, and the defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtRodmak, J.
On the 1st of February, 1875, thejdefendant McCrady and several others presented their petition to the ■Commissioners of Gaston County, in which they set forth that they owned lands in said county, on Crowder’s creek ; that on account of the lowness of the banks and the sluggishness of said stream their lands were sobbed and frequently overflowed with water, and that to drain their lands properly it was necessary to cut a ditch through their own lands, and also through certain lands of the plaintiff, Gamble, and of one Carson, who were unwilling to allow it to be done, and refused also to…
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