Burgwyn v. Lockhart
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a petition fora cartway over the defendant’s land, heard by Heath, Judge, at Northampton Spring Term of the Superior Court, 1863. . The facts are stated in the opinion of the Court. .
1Opinion of the CourtBattle, J.
This petition was filed under the provisions of the Revised Code, ch. 101, sec, 87, which gives to any person settled upon or cultivating any land to which there is no public road leading, a right to a cartway over the land of others, whenever it shall appear “ necessary, reasonable and just,” that he shall have such way to añy public road, ferry, bridge, or public landing. The defendant putin an1 answer denying the right of the petitioner to have a cart-way laid out across his land, and among other objections, he insisted upon the hearing in the Superior Court, that the desired road was not…
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