Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Little

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. R. D. Ride, Acting Associate Justice.

The complaint herein alleges that during the year 1857 a railroad corporation was chartered by the General Assembly of this State, under the corporate name of Cheraw and Coal Fields Railroad Company, and authorized to construct a railroad from Cheraw to the North Carolina state line, in the direction of Wadesboro,.and under this statutory enactment the right-of-way was 200 feet wide, that is to say, 100 feet wide from the center of the track on each side, with the “conclusive presumption of a grant thereto two…