State v. . Norris
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for obstructing a cartway, tried before Connor, J., at March Term, 1917, of Bladen. The jury returned a special verdict. The court pronounced judgment, finding the defendant guilty. From the sentence of the court the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
According to the special verdict, the cartway has never been established under the statute. Eevisal, sec. 2686. June Dix owns a tract of land, which he cultivates, and to reach the same from any public road he must cross the lands .of others. For thirty-seven years he has used a road across the lands now owned by the defendant, over which he has exercised no ownership or possession, except passing back and forth along the same, and occasionally cutting out a tree or other obstruction therefrom. The road was not cut out or established by Dix, and has been used by others only occasionally. In…
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