29-203. Compensation and expenses.
Each fence viewer shall be entitled to receive seven dollars and fifty cents ($7.50) as full compensation for each fence viewed, to be paid in the first instance by the party or parties requiring the services; and all expenses of the view shall be borne equally between the parties interested, except in case of a view to appraise damages for neglect or refusal to make or maintain a just proportion of a division fence, in which case the costs of view shall be paid by the party in default, to be recovered as a part of the damages assessed.
History: G.S. 1868, ch. 40, § 7; R.S. 1923, 29-203; L. 1949, ch. 270, § 2; July 1.