52 N.C. 354 | N.C. | 1860
The petition in this case was filed in the County Court of Bertie, and brought to the Superior Court by appeal. The prayer of the petition is for a jury to lay off a cartway over the lands of the defendant, leading to the fork of the Conaritsa and Snakebite roads, at Thomas Rice's. The judgment in the Superior Court, to which the case came by appeal, is as follows: "It is ordered by the court that a jury be summoned, who shall lay off a cartway, beginning at plaintiff's house, across the land of the defendant, in the direction of Rice's Cross-Roads, and report to the next term."
It appeared from the statement of the case forwarded by his Honor that the lands of other persons laid between the land of the (355) defendant and the station at Rice's, and that these persons were not made parties to the case. The court, on argument and proofs as to many facts raised between the parties, granted the foregoing order, from which the defendant appealed.
In this Court a motion was made to dismiss the appeal.
The objection made by the plaintiff's counsel, that no appeal lies from the County to the Superior Court on a judgment given *275
in a petition for a cartway, is clearly untenable. It was settled to the contrary, Ladd v. Hairston,
Upon the merits of the case it is manifest that the judgment of the Superior Court cannot be sustained. In petitions for a private cartway, as in those for a public road, it is the exclusive province of the court to fix the termini of the way or road, leaving to the jury the exclusive province of laying out the route of such way or road between thosetermini. See Welch v. Piercy,
The judgment given was erroneous, and must be
PER CURIAM. Reversed.
Cited: McDowell v. Asylum,