Jones v. Winckelmann

HORTON, Judge.

This is a special proceeding which was instituted before the Clerk of Superior Court for Wake County to establish a cartway providing access from the land of George C. Jones, Jr. (petitioner), to a public road. The action was brought under the provisions of N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 136-68 and 136-69, as amended by Chapter 513 of the 1995 Session Laws. The 1995 legislation, which had a sunset provision of 30 June 1997, provided, in pertinent part, that a landowner who owned a tract of at least seven acres, and who desired to use it for a single-family homestead but did not have a…