Watson v. Brinkley

STEELMAN, Judge.

The trial court correctly held that respondents’ failure to timely appeal the judgment of the clerk of court establishing petitioners’ right to a cartway across respondents’ land rendered that judgment final. The trial court was without jurisdiction to review the establishment of the right of petitioners to a cartway, and to consider alternative routes over the property of adjacent landowners.

I. Factual and Procedural History

Rosa Watson, Linwood Watson, and Byrum Watson (collectively “petitioners”) own 49.57 acres of land in Halifax County, North Carolina. Petitioners’ tract…