Broocks v. . Muirhead

While three questions are presented on this appeal by defendants, all of them are answered by applying the principles of dedication or equitable estoppel, and of incident remedy.

When the owner of land has it subdivided and platted into lots, streets and alleys, and sells and conveys the lots or any of them with reference to the plat, he thereby dedicates the streets and alleys, and all of them, to the use of the purchasers and those claiming under them, and of the public. See Ins. Co. v. Carolina Beach, 216 N. C., 778, 7 S. E. (2d), 13, and authorities cited.

In Hughes v. Glark, 134 N. C.,…