Bass v. Roanoke Navigation & Waterpower Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a civil action, tried at May Term, 1892, of the Superior Court of Halifax County, before Brown, J. The Judge settled and submitted the following issues: 1. Did the defendant wrongfully destroy the plaintiff's bridge ? 2. What damage is plaintiff entitled to recover? 3. Is the plaintiff the owner and entitled to recover possession of the canal and land described in section ten of complaint? 4. Does the defendant wrongfully withhold possession of said land ? 5. What…
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This was a civil action, tried at May Term, 1892, of the Superior Court of Halifax County, before Brown, J. The Judge settled and submitted the following issues: 1. Did the defendant wrongfully destroy the plaintiff's bridge ? 2. What damage is plaintiff entitled to recover? 3. Is the plaintiff the owner and entitled to recover possession of the canal and land described in section ten of complaint? 4. Does the defendant wrongfully withhold possession of said land ? 5. What damage is plaintiff entitled to recover? The plaintiff’s counsel tendered the following: 1. Did the defendant wrongfully…
1Opinion of the CourtAvery, J.
after stating the case as above, proceeded: It is not necessary to the decision of the questions involved in this appeal to determine whether the English doctrine in reference "to the grantor’s right of reverter, when corporations are dissolved, prevailed in North Carolina in any case, or whether we would follow the equitable rule adopted by the Courts of some of the States, in the absence of positive and constitutional legislation bearing upon a given state of facts. The authorities elsewhere are conflicting, and thus far the question has not in all of its bearings been definitely settled by…
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