KANUPP v. LAND

No. 310.

102 S.E.2d 779 (1958)

248 N.C. 203

W. A. KANUPP and wife, Nellie Kanupp, v. T. L. LAND and wife, Maude Land, J. P. Bradshaw (Single), Mrs. Annie Lorain Beach and husband, W. Roy Beach, Fred Gibson and wife, Johnsie Gibson, Joe Minton and wife, Flora Minton, Lee G. Tomlinson and wife, Mrs. Lee G. Tomlinson, A. L. Pearson and wife, Mrs. A. L. Pearson, Arthur Kincaid and wife, Ruth Kincaid, Robert L. Clontz and wife, Mrs. Robert L. Clontz.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 9, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. H. Strickland, Lenoir, for plaintiffappellant.

Townsend & Todd, Lenoir, for defendant-appellees.


RODMAN, Justice.

A property owner who has no reasonable access to his property and for that reason is denied the beneficial use thereof may file his petition with the clerk of the Superior Court and, upon a showing of necessity and payment of the damages sustained, have an easement imposed on the land of his neighbor to provide the isolated property owner reasonable access to a public road. G.S. § 136-69.

The statute merely accords a right to the property...

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