Court Opinion

ID: 9808722
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 20:48:09.004895+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:17:47.269809
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A very, J.
(concurring): Concurring fully with the majority of the Court in the judgment announced, I deem it best to state a little more explicitly the grounds upon which I *673rest my opinion. ■ The right-of-way of railroads is, by judgment of condemnation, made subject to occupation whenever the corporation finds it necessary to use it .in furtherance of the ends for which the company was created. In assessing the damages it must be assumed that the estimate is not based upon the idea of the exclusive occupation and perception of the profits of the whole of the condemned land by the corporation, but upon the more reasonable view that only so much of the territory will be subjected to occupation and exclusive dominion as is necessary for tracks, ditches and houses to be used for stations and section hands, while outside of this the owner of the servient tenement will be unmolested, except where entry is made for the purpose of removing something that endangers the safety of passengers traveling on the railroad, or that may subject the company to liability for injury to adjacent lands or property. This is the principle to which this Court has given its sanction in Ward v. Railroad, 113 N. C., 566, in the same casa 109 N. C., 358, and in Hinkle v. Railroad, 109 N. C., 472.