Turner v. . Public Service Corporation

This case was before the Court, 170 N.C. 172. The plaintiff sought to enjoin the defendants from building a street railway, but the restraining order having been dissolved and the work having been completed prior to the hearing of the appeal, the court declined to pass upon the questions involved, further than to hold that the city authorities were authorized to grant, upon reasonable terms, franchises for public utilities; and as to the contention that the "construction of this track, or the running of freight cars upon it, is additional servitude, for which the plaintiff, the abutting…