Lockville Power Corp. v. Carolina Power & Light Co.

This was an action to recover damages by reason of the

defendant’s dam backing water on the plaintiff’s land and water power at Rockville. The jury found that the plaintiff was tbe owner of the land and water power and that the defendant’s Buckhorn dam wrongfully ponded water within 200 feet of,the plaintiff’s mill site at Rockville, and awarded damages therefor.

The defendant’s main contention was the insufficient execution and probate of two deeds offered in evidence by the plaintiff. One deed was from the Deep River Manufacturing Company to the> American Iron and Steel Company, 15 July,…