LaRoque v. Kennedy
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal bj plaintiffs from Justice, J., at January Special Term, 1911, of Lenoib. Tbe plaintiff brings tbis action to recover damages for pond-ing water on ber land, located on South-West Creek.
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Appeal bj plaintiffs from Justice, J., at January Special Term, 1911, of Lenoib. Tbe plaintiff brings tbis action to recover damages for pond-ing water on ber land, located on South-West Creek. Sbe alleges in ber complaint, among other things: “That tbe defendant is tbe owner of a mill-site known as ‘Kennedy’s Mill’ in said South-West Township, which said mill is built across South-West Creek below plaintiff’s lands, and tbe defendant makes use of tbe waters of said South-West Creek to supply power for tbe operation of said mill. “That on or about .... day of March, 1906, tbe defendant…
1Opinion of the Court
AlleN, J.,
after stating tbe case: Tbe plaintiff objects to tbe admissibility of tbe deed to Richard Caswell, on two grounds:(1) That tbe evidence of tbe clerk, Plato Collins, as to tbe bandwriting of Stephen White, who was Register of Deeds of Lenoir County in 1855, is incompetent. This objection is fully met by tbe interesting and valuable .opinion of Justice Hoke in Nicholson v. Lumber Co., ante, 59. In that case a cer*371tificate of survey of a land warrant, dated in 1841, and signed by Euel Windley, surveyor, was admitted in_ evidence on tbe testimony of John B. Eespess, Jr., which was as…
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