Brown v. . Keener
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil Action) for a penalty, originally commencing in (lie Court of a Justice of the Peace, was carried, before his Honor, Judge MitoheU, at Chambers, in Catawba county, and heard 29th of May, 1875, upon the following CASE AGREED.
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Civil Action) for a penalty, originally commencing in (lie Court of a Justice of the Peace, was carried, before his Honor, Judge MitoheU, at Chambers, in Catawba county, and heard 29th of May, 1875, upon the following CASE AGREED. “ This was an action of debt, brought by the plaintiff to recover the sum of four dollars from the defendant, for failing to work on Clark’s and Maiden’s creek, under the act of Assembly, passed at the session of 1873 — ’74, public laws, chap. 102, and the act amending the same, passed by the General Assembly at its session, 1874-75, entitled “ An Act to secure the…
1Opinion of the CourtRodMAN, J.
By the act of 1873-’74, chap. 102, certain persons in Lincoln county were appointed commissioners for Clark’s creek, and certain other persons, in Catawba county, for Maiden’s creek, to lay off portions of said creeks between certain termini on each, into sections of convenient length, and to appoint an overseer for each section. Provision is made for the permanence of the commissioners as a body, by the filling of vacancies by the survivors. By section 3 it is enacted, “that the commissioners shall estimate the number of acres of bottom land on said creeks between said termini, belonging to…
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