Porter v. Armstrong.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Action by Elisha Porter against T. J. Armstrong, Sarah E. Durham and ,W. W. Miller, heard by Judge W. A. TIoice, at March Term, 1901, c.f the Superior Court of PeNpek, County. Prom a judgment of nonsuit, the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
.Douguas, J.
This is a proceeding begun by the plaintiff under Chapter 255 of the Public Laws of 1899. It appears that the plaintiff owns 200 acres of land known as Hie Pig-ford farm, while the defendants own about 450 acres of land known as the Durham or Stanley lands, and lying between the plaintiff and Mill Creek. From time immemorial the owner of the Durham lands has maintained through said lands a ditch, called Strawberry Canal, draining them inoo Mill Creek. About the year 1859 or 1860, Lane, the then owner of the Durham lands, gave permission to Berry, then owner of the Pigford farm, to…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Spruill v. Northwestern Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1897
- Norfleet v. CromwellSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1874
- Porter v. DurhamSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1876
- Porter v. . DurhamSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1878
- Porter v. . DurhamSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1887
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