Bridgers v. . Dill
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a civil aotiok, tried before Shepherd, Judge, at Spring Term, 1886, of NORTHAMPTON Superior Court. In 1882, the plaintiff cultivated a farm in Northampton county, rented by him of Dr. R. H. Staneil, adm’r of S. T. Stancil, dec’d, and this action is brought to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by the wrongful acts of the defendants in unlawfully entering upon said land and pulling down the inclosure around his cultivated field, at different times and…
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This was a civil aotiok, tried before Shepherd, Judge, at Spring Term, 1886, of NORTHAMPTON Superior Court. In 1882, the plaintiff cultivated a farm in Northampton county, rented by him of Dr. R. H. Staneil, adm’r of S. T. Stancil, dec’d, and this action is brought to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by the wrongful acts of the defendants in unlawfully entering upon said land and pulling down the inclosure around his cultivated field, at different times and from day to day, and continuing to pull it down as the plaintiff would put it up, by reason whereof cattle entered and…
1Opinion of the Court
Davis, J.,
(after stating the facts). The exception to the evidence of Bridgers, objected to by defendants, cannot be sustained. The trespass was repeated as often as the plaintiff would put up his fence; it was a continued trespass, and the case is unlike that of Roberts v. Cole, 82 N. C., 292, where the damages were properly limited to such sum as would repair and put the fence in order, and cover the injury done to the crop, before the plaintiff knew of the trespass. But if the evidence excepted to was at all amenable to the-objection that it was speculative and too remote, it was cured by…
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