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  "name": "J. J. E. LUCAS and wife v. CAROLINA CENTRAL RAILWAY COMPANY",
  "name_abbreviation": "Lucas v. Carolina Central Railway Co.",
  "decision_date": "1898-03-29",
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      "J. J. E. LUCAS and wife v. CAROLINA CENTRAL RAILWAY COMPANY."
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      {
        "text": "Clark, J.:\nIn 1887 the plaintiffs brought an action against the defendant to recover damages for overflowing and impairing the value of the plaintiffs\u2019 land in Bladen county. In 1889 a compromise judgment was entered by which it was agreed that the defendant should pay the costs (including $100 to plaintiffs\u2019 attorney) which was done and should widen and deepen a certain ditch within 6 months, and the plaintiffs agreed to accept the same in full satisfaction. This action was brought for a breach of the said contract, or consent judgment, in that the aforesaid ditch had not been widened and deepened. At the close of the plaintiffs\u2019 evidence the defendant moved to remove the cause to Columbus County because it had been shown that the land alleged to have been damaged lay in that County. On the former argument (121 N. O., 50G) this question of venue was pressed, and the Court held that the objection was taken too late, and besides was invalid because not made in writing, the Court adding \u201cthe other exceptions, though not abandoned, were neither insisted upon nor argued in this Court.\u201d We then understood that the tract of land damaged was the same as that mentioned in the original action, which, probably by a better ascertainment since of the location of the County line, had proved to be in Columbus instead of Bladen County; indeed, the counsel for the plaintiff was understood to so state.\nThe. proposition presented on this hearing is that the exception raised by the refusal of a prayer for instructions and not by the motion to remove, is not merely as to venue \u2014 as to which we reaffirm the former ruling- \u2014 \u2022 but of variance, in that, this action being for a breach of a consent judgment in an action brought for damages to the plaintiffs\u2019 home tract in Bladen county, the plaintiffs cannot recover damages in this action by reason of the overflowing of another and entirely different tract of land. This point is well taken. If the plaintiffs\u2019 60 acre tract in Columbus County has been damaged by the wrongful act of the defendant, they can maintain their action in tort therefor, but they cannot recover such damages in an action brought upon the alleged breach of a compromise judgment entered in an action brought for damages to an entirely different tract of land in Bladen County. The objection now argued is not to the venue (though that might have availed if made below in apt time) but that damages to the 60 acre tract were not in the purview of the parties when the compromise was entered as to the damages claimed as to the home tract. There was error in the Court below for which a new trial must be granted.\nPetition allowed.",
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        "author": "Clark, J.:"
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Messrs. J. D. Shaw and MacRae & Bay for defendant (petitioner).",
      "Messrs.. C. C. Lyon and Jones & Boykin, contra."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "J. J. E. LUCAS and wife v. CAROLINA CENTRAL RAILWAY COMPANY.\n(Decided March 29, 1898).\nAction for Damages for Breach of Contract \u2014 Compromise Judgment \u2014 Injuries-to Real Estate \u2014 Variance\u2014 Venue.\n1. An error as to the venue of an action is not now, as formerly, a defect affecting jurisdiction hut only ground for a motion to remove which is waived unless the motion is made '\u2018in writing\u201d and \u201cbefore the time for answering expires.\u201d\n2. In an action for breach of a compromise judgment entered in an action ' for damages to real estate in one county, there can be no recovery for damages to a different tract of land lying in an adjoining county which was not within the contemplation of the parties when the compromise was made.\nPetitioN by defendant to rehear case between same parties, decided at September Term, 1897, of this Court and reported in 121 N. C., at page 506.\nMessrs. J. D. Shaw and MacRae & Bay for defendant (petitioner).\nMessrs.. C. C. Lyon and Jones & Boykin, contra."
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