Burgwyn v. . Whitfield
Supreme Court of North Carolina
.Claim and Delivery tried -at Spring Term, 1878., of •NORTHAMPTON Superior Court, before Seymour, J. This .action was brought to recover the possession of a hog which was admitted to be the plaintiff’s property.
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.Claim and Delivery tried -at Spring Term, 1878., of •NORTHAMPTON Superior Court, before Seymour, J. This .action was brought to recover the possession of a hog which was admitted to be the plaintiff’s property. A demand "was made upon the defendant who refused to deliver the property, and claimed the right to hold the same under the provisions of chapter 60, p. 684 of.the acts of 1876-77, until double damages were paid him for the injury committed. by the bog' upon his growing crop on a farm in Occo-neechee Neck, for which trespass and injury the defendant had distrained the hog. The…
1Opinion of the CourtDillard, J.
The cultivators of land in a certain bend of Roanoke river in Northampton county, known as Occonee-chee Neck, having no. fence around the whole or the-separate parcels o.f land lying therein, the legislature at the session of 1876, ch. 60, passed a private law for their benefit, wherein it was enacted that the river, a rail fence running from Fai-son’s corner on the river to mud" castle, and thence to Wheeler’s swamp at the head of Bull Hill mill pond, and the run of said swamp from the head of said mill pond to the river, should be sufficient as a fence,, with a declaration in the 6th…
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