Mason v. . Durham

WALKER, J., dissenting, BROWN, J., concurring in the dissenting opinion. This is an action by Mary B. Mason against the Commissioners of Durham to recover damages for the value of a strip of land 60 feet wide and 7 feet deep across the front of her lot on the Main Street road between Durham and East Durham, taken by the Commissioners of Durham County in the spring of 1916 for the purpose of widening said road in front of plaintiff's property. Plaintiff's complaint was filed 29 July, 1916, in which she alleged as a cause of action that she was the owner of a lot of land on East Main Street…