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REDEVELOPMENT COM'N OF GREENSBORO v. HAGINS

No. 600.

128 S.E.2d 391 (1962)

258 N.C. 220

REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSION OF GREENSBORO, Petitioner, v. Bernice T. HAGINS, (Hagan) and husband J. G. Hagins, Respondents (two cases). REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSION OF GREENSBORO, Petitioner, v. Bernice T. HAGINS (Hagan) and husband, J. G. Hagins, Respondents.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 12, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cannon & Wolfe, by J. Archie Cannon, Jr., Greenboro, for petitioner, appellee.

Major S. High, Greensboro, C. O. Pearson, Durham, for respondents, appellants.

HIGGINS, Justice.

The power of eminent domain is one of the attributes of a sovereign state. The right to take private property for public use exists independently of constitutional provisions. In fact, such provisions are limitations on the state's power to exercise the right. 18 Am.Jur., p. 634; 29 C.J.S. Eminent Domain § 3, p. 781; DeBruhl v. State Highway & Public Works Comm., 247 N.C. 671, 102 S.E.2d 229...

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