Skinner v. . Hettrick .
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ACTION and application for an Injunction, heard before Mure, J., at the Eall Term, 1874, of Oi-iowAN Superior Court.
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Civil ACTION and application for an Injunction, heard before Mure, J., at the Eall Term, 1874, of Oi-iowAN Superior Court. The following are the material facts, as transmitted by his Honor to this Court, as'a statement of the case: The plaintiff is the owner of a ten year lease of a fishery on Albemarle Sound, known as Long Beach Fishery, and began to repair his beach, windlasses, &c., sometime in the summer of 1874. He fishes a seine about 2200 yards long, and lays it out about a mile from the shore, in the direction-, up and down the sound. In repairing the windlasses, the plaintiff placed…
1Opinion of the CourtSettle, J.
The plaintiff having commenced an action against the defendant to recover damages for obstructing his right of fishing in Albemarle Sound, obtained an order from the Court restraining the defendant from setting Dutch or pond nets in the sound except upon such conditions as are imposed by the act of 1874-75, chap. 115. A motion to dissolve the restraining order was refused, and the injunction continued to the hearing of the cause, from -which order the defendants appealed to this Court.
The bare statement of a few general principles will be sufficient to decide the question involved.
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