Drainage Commissioners of Washington County District, No. 4 v. Eastern Home & Farm Ass'n
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant from Ferguson, J., at Spring Term, 1914, of WASHINGTON.
1Opinion of the Court
Clark, C. J".
Tbis is a-controversy submitted without action under Rev., 803. For the purpose of straightening and deepening Pungo River by cutting a canal from a point near the mouth of Indian Run to where the Norfolk Southern Railroad crosses the Pungo, the landowners on both sides of that river in 1910 organized the “Pungo River Drainage District,” under chapter 442, Laws 1909. Under this proceeding a large body of lands were made possible for drainage by the canal that was constructed. But while the landowners on both sides of this canal, which ran in a-northwesterly direction, were…
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