Harrell v. Norfolk & Carolina Railroad

Citations

• 29 S.E. 56
• 122 N.C. 822
• 1898 N.C. LEXIS 359

Syllabus

<p>Action for Damages — Permanent Injury to Land by Construction of Railroad — Statute of Limitations.</p> <p>1. Before the Act of 1895 (Chapter 224) a railroad cbuld acquire the prescriptive right to pond water on adjacent lands only by subjecting itself to an action for the injury continuously for twenty years. <</p> <p>2. Chapter 224, Acts of 1895, reducing the time for bringing action against a railroad company for permanent injury to land, caused by the construction or repair of defendant’s road, to five years, does not apply to a suit begun before its passage.</p>