Phifer v. Commissioners of Cabarrus County
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by plaintiff from Biggs, Jat May Term, 1911, of 0ABARRUS. Tbe facts are sufficiently stated in, the opinion of the Court by Mr. Chief Justice Claris.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN and WALKER, JJ., dissenting. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the Court by MR. CHIEF JUSTICE CLARK. This proceeding was begun before the clerk to assess the damages caused to plaintiff's lands by opening a public road through them, and was tried on appeal in the Superior Court.
The plaintiff owned about sixty acres of land about three-fourths of a mile from the town of Concord. There were already two public roads through it before the defendant built this road. There is no exception except to the refusal of two prayers to instruct the (152) jury and one for an…
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