Lamb v. Elizabeth City.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by E. E. Lamb against Elizabeth City, heard by Judge O. II. Allen and a jury, at March Term, 1901, of th© Superior Court of PasquotaNe County. From a judgment for the defendant, the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtClark, J.
In this action, the plaintiff asked damages (1) because the defendant had wrongfully entered and appropriated a strip of land 8 feet at one end and 4 feet at the other and 293 feet long, taken off the front of plaintiff’s lot, in widening the street, which was paved and otherwise improved ; (2) because the defendant moved back “the buildings and improvements from s'aid land in a negligent and careless manner, to the plaintiff’s damage $300.”
It appeared in evidence that the strip had been regularly and legally condemned, the damages assessed and tendered. The plaintiff thereupon obtained leave…
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