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Title Little Switzerland Land Company Suit For Damages From Highway Commission in Court
Title Note Clipping of Tri-County News article
Date April 6, 1939
Description Reports on the Switzerland Company v. State Highway Commission case, noting that trial would likely be long because of the amount of lawyers and number of testimonies. Judge Wilson J. Warlick ordered that a jury be selected from Rutherford rather than Mitchell County. The article states that Heriot Clarkson would be the first witness.
Commentary Box 10, folder 539.
Location Location Name: Little Switzerland
Parkway Milepost: 330.8
Latitude: 35.849672
Longitude: -82.091147
Creator Organization Tri-County News
Tags Clarkson, Heriot
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Lawsuits
Little Switzerland (N.C.)
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.