Lenoir v. . Crabtree

The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the Court by Mr.Chief Justice Clark. This is a proceeding for a mandatory injunction to prohibit the defendant from further maintaining or adding to a building which is built so near to a public bridge over the Neuse River as to prevent the draw therein from being operated except in one direction. For something over one hundred years the county of Lenoir maintained a bridge across Neuse River, a navigable stream at that point. In 1884 the present bridge was built by the county, about 15 feet from where the old bridge stood, and it was…