Williams v. . Buchanan
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This wasan actionof trespassquare clausum fregit, tried at Spring Term, 1841, of Chatham Superior Court, before his hon- or Judge Pearson. The trespass alleged was, putting a fishtrap in Deep River, & joining (he dam toa small island. It was ^at Deep river was not a navigable stream.
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This wasan actionof trespassquare clausum fregit, tried at Spring Term, 1841, of Chatham Superior Court, before his hon- or Judge Pearson. The trespass alleged was, putting a fishtrap in Deep River, & joining (he dam toa small island. It was ^at Deep river was not a navigable stream. The plaintiff read a grant to one Stokes, which, it was admitted, covered the locus in quo, and that the fish trap and the island to which the dam was joined, consisting of a ledge of rock and a collection of trees and shrubs, were situate on the south side of a line, pursuing the rive&wkey; the traps being…
1Opinion of the CourtGaston, J.
The trespass, of which the plaintiff complained, was the putting of a fish trap in a sluice of Deep River, and the erection of a dam contiguous to the trap and extending from the south bank of the river to a rock on the north side of the sluice. The river was not navigable, and the rock and sluice were on the south side of the middle or channel of the river. Both plaintiff and defendant setup title to the locus in quo, under conveyances from the same proprietor. The first conveyance was made to Boy]an, under whom the plaintiff claimed, and it covered a tract of land on the north side of the…
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