Lamb v. Elizabeth City.

This is a petition to rehear in part this case, which is reported in 131 N.C. 241. In that opinion a new trial was granted the petitioner as to his second ground of damages, alleged to have been sustained from the careless and negligent manner in which the defendant had moved back the plaintiff's buildings from a narrow strip of land, 8 ft. wide at one end, 4 feet wide at the other, and 293 feet long, taken off the front of the plaintiff's lot in widening the street; but the (195) court adjudged that the first ground of damages alleged for taking said strip has been in effect abandoned by an…