Staton v. Norfolk & Carolina Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a civil ACTION, tried by Brown, T, at the May Term, 1892, of Halifax Superior Court. The suit was for damages for flooding land. There was a verdict and judgment for plaintiff. Defendant appealed. The material facts may be gathered from the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Shepherd, C. J.:
In the case of Jenkins v. Railroad Co., 110 N. C., 438, we had occasion to say, in respect to the drainage and diversion of surface-water, that “a railroad company enjoys the same privileges as any other landowner, but no greater, to be exercised under the same restrictions and qualifications,” and that it “has a right to cut ditches (on its right-of-way) and conduct the surface-water into a natural watercourse passing through its land, and if this right is exercised in good faith, and in a reasonable manner, for the better adaptation of the land to lawful and proper uses, no…
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