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Title Little Switzerland Case Heard by Mitchell Jury
Title Note Clipping of News and Observer article
Date April 1, 1938
Description Describes the State Highway Commission's appeal of the award of $27,111 that county appraisers had given the Switzerland Company as compensation. The article mentions Judge Wilson Warlick, Heriot Clarkson who gave testimony and the legal counsel, including Gov. Ehringhaus, Guy Carswell, W. C. Berry and the firm of McBee and McBee for the Switzerland Company, as well as Charles Ross for the State Highway Commission.
Commentary Box 10, folder 539.
Location Location Name: Little Switzerland
Parkway Milepost: 330.8
Latitude: 35.849672
Longitude: -82.091147
Creator Organization Raleigh News and Observer
Tags Clarkson, Heriot
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Ehringhaus, J.C.B. (John Christoph Blucher)
Lawsuits
Little Switzerland (N.C.)
Ross, Charles
State Highway and Public Works Commission
Switzerland Company
Warlick, Wilson
Credit Francis O. Clarkson Papers, #3275, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.