Jones v. City of Asheville
Supreme Court of North Carolina
AotioN by Laura E. Jones against the City of Asheville, to recover damages for injury to her property and for a mandamus to compel the City of Asheville to pa]? to her the amount theretofore assessed as the value of her land appropriated by the city. The facts are fully stated in the-opinion of Associate Justice Fleches.
1Opinion of the Court
Fubohes, J.:
The plaintiff and J. M. Campbell are the owners of a house and lot in the city of Asheville, the plaintiff owning a life estate therein and Campbell owning the remainder in fee simple. In 1892 the defendant City acting in accordance with the provisions of its charter and in the exercise of its right of eminent domain, for the purpose of widening the streets of the city of Asheville, took and appropriated a part of the lot above mentioned, belonging to the plaintiff and the said J. M. Campbell. Sometime after the appropriation of the property above mentioned, the damage to said lot…
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