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  "id": 8654916,
  "name": "W. W. RHODES v. WADE SHELTON",
  "name_abbreviation": "Rhodes v. Shelton",
  "decision_date": "1924-05-14",
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  "first_page": "716",
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    "id": 9292,
    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
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    "parties": [
      "W. W. RHODES v. WADE SHELTON."
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        "text": "Stacy, J.\nPetitioner alleges that he owns and cultivates a certain tract of land to which there is leading no public road, and he asks for the laying-out of a cartway over the lands of the respondent, lying adjacent to and between the petitioner\u2019s land and the public highway leading from Lawsonville to Danbury. Respondent files answer, denying the petitioner\u2019s right to a cartway as proposed by him, and alleges that the petitioner has a public road leading to and through the land described in the petition, and that he can reach the same by two public roads, from different directions, intersecting with said public road leading to and through his land.\nIt appearing from the evidence, without any sufficient denial, that there is a public road leading to the cultivated land of the petitioner, and there being no sufficient evidence to show that said proposed cart-way is \u201cnecessary, reasonable and just,\u201d judgment was entered, on motion of respondent, dismissing the petition as in case of nonsuit. In this we find no error. C. S., 3836, and cases cited thereunder. No benefit would be derived from detailing the evidence in full, as the only question before us is whether it is sufficient to carry the case to the jury, and we concur in the opinion of the trial court that it is not.\nThe judgment of nonsuit must be upheld.\nAffirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Stacy, J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "J. W. Hall and Holton & Holton for petitioner.",
      "McMichael & McMichael, J. D. Humphreys, and N. O. Petree for respondent."
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    "head_matter": "W. W. RHODES v. WADE SHELTON.\n(Filed 14 May, 1924.)\nEasements \u2014 Statutes\u2014Way of Necessity.\nFor the owner of lands, cultivating the same, to obtain a way of necessity over the lands of another to a public road, he must show that such way is \u201cnecessary, reasonable and just,\u201d under the provisions of O. S., 3S36; and where it appears, without sufficient denial, that there is a public road leading to the cultivated lands, the petition is properly dismissed.\nAppeal by petitioner from Lyon, J., at December Special Term, 1923, of Stokes.\nPetition for cartway over lands of respondent, filed before Stokes County Highway Commission and beard de novo on appeal to Superior Court.\nFrom a judgment dismissing tbe jDetition, entered as in case of non-suit, tbe petitioner appeals.\nJ. W. Hall and Holton & Holton for petitioner.\nMcMichael & McMichael, J. D. Humphreys, and N. O. Petree for respondent."
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