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EASON v. SPENCE

No. 388.

61 S.E.2d 717 (1950)

232 N.C. 579

EASON et al. v. SPENCE et al.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 8, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wallace & Wallace, Kinston, and J. Faison Thomson, Goldsboro, for plaintiffs, appellees.

Whitaker & Jeffress and George B. Greene, all of Kinston, for defendants, appellants.

ERVIN, Justice.

Under Article I, Section 17, of the State Constitution, no person can be deprived of his property except by his own consent or the law of the land. The law of the land and due process of law are interchangeable terms. State v. Ballance, 229 N.C. 764, 51 S.E.2d 731, 7 A.L.R.2d 407. The significance of the law of the land in its procedural aspect is laid bare by a famous phrase used by Daniel Webster in his argument in the Dartmouth College case. "By...

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