Legal Opinion

Speight v. . Anderson

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided September 18, 1946PublishedCited by 31 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtBarnhill, J.

There is no evidence in the record sufficient to support a finding that either the old or the relocated way of ingress and egress is a public road. Chesson v. Jordan, 224 N. C., 289, 29 S. E. (2d), 906; Collins v. Patterson, 119 N. C., 602.

Our statutes provide for the establishment of private cartways, tramways, railways, cable ears, chutes, flumes, G. S., 136-69, and church roads, G. S., 136-71. There is no legislative sanction, or provision for the establishment, of a neighborhood road, a term ordinarily used to designate a private way which serves a neighborhood as an outlet to a public…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Chesson v. . JordanSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1944
  2. Hemphill v. . Board of AldermenSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1937
  3. Griffin v. United Services Life InsuranceSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1945
  4. Darr v. Carolina Aluminum Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1939
  5. Lea v. . JohnsonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1848

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3Cited by31 opinions

  1. Dickinson v. PakeSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1974
  2. West v. SlickSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1985
  3. Broyhill v. CoppageCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 1986
  4. Franklin Property Trust v. Foresite, Inc.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1981
  5. Nicholas v. Salisbury Hardware and Furniture Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1958

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