Gooch v. . McGee
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil Action to recover land, tried at Spring Term, 1879, of Halifax Superior Court, before Eure, J. Case Agreed : In the year 1812, the legislature granted a charter to the Roanoke navigation company, under an act entitled “ an act for improving the navigation of Roanoke river from the town of Halifax to the Virginia line,” and a company was duly organized thereunder at a meeting of the stockholders held in the town of Halifax on the fourth Monday of October, 1815; the…
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Civil Action to recover land, tried at Spring Term, 1879, of Halifax Superior Court, before Eure, J. Case Agreed : In the year 1812, the legislature granted a charter to the Roanoke navigation company, under an act entitled “ an act for improving the navigation of Roanoke river from the town of Halifax to the Virginia line,” and a company was duly organized thereunder at a meeting of the stockholders held in the town of Halifax on the fourth Monday of October, 1815; the proceedings of which meeting were ratified by the legislature at its session of 1816. And said corporation has since fully…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The plaintiff purchased at a sale under execution against the Roanoke navigation company, certain laud which had been theretofore condemned for its use, under the provisions of the act of incorporation, including the bed covered by the waters of the canal, at its terminus near Weldon, and in this suit seeks to recover possession. The defendant had leased the land from the company for a period which had expired before the day of sale, but still continued in possession, refusing to surrender to the plainiff.
Under an act of the general assembly entitled “an act for the dissolution of the Roanoke…
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