Creighton v. Water Commissioners.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
AotioN by H. L. Creighton and wife against Board of Water Commissioners of Charlotte, heard by Judge Henry B. Bryan and a jury, at the June Term, 1906, of the Superior Court of MecKleNbuRG.
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AotioN by H. L. Creighton and wife against Board of Water Commissioners of Charlotte, heard by Judge Henry B. Bryan and a jury, at the June Term, 1906, of the Superior Court of MecKleNbuRG. There is allegation and evidence tending to show that defendant, under and by virtue of power given in its charter, in the exercise of the right of eminent domain, has entered upon certain lands of plaintiffs and seeks to appropriate same and impose an easement thereon for the necessary and public purposes contemplated by the statute. Plaintiffs, in accordance with the provisions of the law, instituted…
1Opinion of the Court
PIoKE, J.,
after stating tbe facts: The objections urged to tbe validity of this trial are to tbe rulings of tbe Court on questions of evidence.
Defendant excepted:
1. To tbe admission of evidence indicated in tbe following question and answer:
Q. Now, Mr. Creighton, state to the jury what sort of meadow-land it is, or rather was, before the dam was erected and tbe water was placed over tbe meadow-land (which is admitted, I believe, in tbe -pleadings). Ans. I have been working with it about thirty years, and it was certainly good meadow — -just as fine as anybody’s meadow in tbe country.
Q. Can…
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