State v. . Hause
Supreme Court of North Carolina
IrdiotmeNt, for a trespass on land, tried before Logan, L, at Spring Term, 1875., of Lincoln Superior Court. The land on which the trespass was alleged to have been committed, is an acute angle between the defendant’s land and a public road which runs by his place. From defendant’s land to the public road, runs a road, which crosses this land at the largest opening of the angle, a distance of about forty yards.
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IrdiotmeNt, for a trespass on land, tried before Logan, L, at Spring Term, 1875., of Lincoln Superior Court. The land on which the trespass was alleged to have been committed, is an acute angle between the defendant’s land and a public road which runs by his place. From defendant’s land to the public road, runs a road, which crosses this land at the largest opening of the angle, a distance of about forty yards. This road was cut fifteen or sixteen years ago, the prosecutor not objecting, and has been used by the defendant and prior owners of defendant’s land without any objection from the…
1Opinion of the CourtSettle, J.
The manifest object of the act entitled “An act to prevent willful trespasses upon lands and stealing any kind of property therefrom,” in the forcible language of Judge BoxdeN, in the State v. Hanks, 66 N. C. Rep. 612, was to keep oil “interlopers” and to subject them to indictment if they invaded the possession after they had been forbidden to do so. If one commits a trespass upon the land of another, his good faith in the matter or ignorance of the true right or title will not exonerate him from civil responsibility for the act.
But when the statute affixed to such a trespass the…
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