Willey v. Norfolk Southern Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil actioN, heard before Shipp, Judge, and a jury, at Fall Term, 1886, of Currituck Superior Court. There was a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, and the defendant appealed. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
In the construction of its road, the defendant company instituted proceedings against John B. Bell, and caused to be condemned a portion of his land in Curri-tuck county, on which it constructed its track, of the width of thirty-three feet on each side thereof. Over this condemned land, and across the railway, passes a road or way, which the plaintiff claims as incident to a tract of land which he purchased in 1880, from long and adversary use, as of right, by the successive proprietors who preceded him.
The action is to recover damages for its obstruction by the company in erecting bars…
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