Carolina-Tennessee Power Co. v. Hiawassee River Power Co.

This case is only another branch of the same litigation which has been going on between these parties for a number of years. Power Co. v. Power Co., 186 N. C., 179; S. c., 175 N. C., 668; S. c., 171 N. C., 248.

In 1909, the petitioner, through its officers, engineers and other representatives, entered upon, explored and surveyed certain lands and water rights in and along the Hiawassee River in Cherokee County, N. C., not declared by law to be navigable, and marked upon the ground the location of its route for water-power development, and adopted the same by authoritative corporate action. The…