Seibold v. City of Kinston

Plea in Bar of GOVERNMENTAL Immunity by the City of Kinston and the County of LeNOir.

The city of Kinston is a municipal corporation. Municipal corporations have only those powers expressly conferred upon them by the General Assembly, and those necessarily implied from those expressly conferred, and those powers which are essential and indispensable to, and not merely convenient for, the accomplishment of the declared objects of the corporation. 3 Strong’s N. C. Index, Municipal Corporations, § 4, and the same section of Municipal Corporations in Supplement to Vol. 3 of Strong’s N. C. Index.

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