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VIRGINIA ELECTRIC & POWER COMPANY v. KING

No. 166.

130 S.E.2d 318 (1963)

259 N.C. 219

VIRGINIA ELECTRIC & POWER COMPANY v. S. D. KING and wife, Browning B. King.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 10, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Crew & House, by W. Lunsford Crew and J. Albert House, Jr., Roanoke Rapids, and Hunton, Williams, Gay, Powell & Gibson, by E. Milton Farley, III, Richmond, for appellant.

Allsbrook, Benton & Knott, by Dwight L. Cranford, Roanoke Rapids, for appellees.

RODMAN, Justice.

The words "eminent domain" mean the power of the sovereign or some agency authorized by it to take private property for public use. Hedrick v. Graham, 245 N.C. 249, 96 S.E.2d 129; Yadkin County v. City of High Point, 217 N.C. 462, 8 S.E.2d 470; Spencer v. Seaboard Air Line R. R., 137 N.C. 107, 49 S.E. 96, 1 L.R. A.,N.S., 604. When the right...

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