Porter v. . Durham

The plaintiff instituted an action against the defendants at Spring Term, 1874, of New Hanover Superior Court, in his complaint alleging:

He is the owner of a tract of land in said county, on which there are about one hundred acres of very fertile swamp land, most of which is cleared and well adapted to cultivation. Said swamp land was low, and in its natural state there was a good deal of water (768) thereupon, and the same was too wet to be used successfully for farming purposes. The plaintiff and those under whom he claims, by expending large sums of money in cutting various ditches…