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      "TOWN OF DURHAM v. RICHMOND AND DANVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY et al."
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        "text": "Per Curiam:\nIn this case both the plaintiff and defendants appealed. Mr. Justice Burwell did not sit, and the Court is evenly divided. The appeals have now been standing on this docket four terras. Under these circumstances, following the uniform practice of appellate Courts in such cases, the judgment below stands, not os a precedent, but as the decision in this case. Marshall, C. J., in Etting v. Bank, 11 Wheat., 59; TaNEY, C. J., in Benton v. Woolsey, 12 Pet., 27, and in Holmes v. Jenison, 14 Peters, 540; Washington v. Stewart, 3 Howard, 413, 424; Chase, C. J., in Reeside v. Reeside, 8 Wall., 302; Durant v. Essex Co., 8 Allen (Mass.), 103; 85 American Dec., 685. The appellauts will respectively pay the costs, each in their own appeal.\nPlaintiff\u2019s appeal affirmed.\nDefendants\u2019 appeal affirmed.",
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      "Messrs. Batchelor & Devereux, T. B. Womack, W. W. Fuller and J. S. Manning, for plaintiff.",
      "Messrs. D. Schenck, F. FT. Busbee, W. A. Guthrie, J. W. Graham and John Manning, for defendants."
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    "head_matter": "TOWN OF DURHAM v. RICHMOND AND DANVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY et al.\nAppeal \u2014 Divided Court \u2014 Affirmance of Judgment Below.\nWhere an appeal has been pending for several years, and this Court is evenly divided (one of the Judges not sitting), the'uniform practice of appellate Courts in such cases will be followed, and the judgment below will be affirmed and the appellant required to pa,y the costs,\nCivil aution, heard before Winston, J., at September Term, 1891, of Chatham Superior Court.\nFrom the judgment both parties appealed.\nMessrs. Batchelor & Devereux, T. B. Womack, W. W. Fuller and J. S. Manning, for plaintiff.\nMessrs. D. Schenck, F. FT. Busbee, W. A. Guthrie, J. W. Graham and John Manning, for defendants."
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