Michaux v. City of Rooky Mount

In 1907 tbe General Assembly amended tbe charter of tbe city of Rocky Mount, investing it with all tbe property, rights, franchises, and powers of tbe town of Rocky Mount, and conferring all other powers, rights, and privileges requisite or pertaining to municipal corporations. Private Laws 1907, cb. 209. There is a public highway which extends from Wilson to a place in tbe city of Rocky Mount, where tbe Cokey road crosses tbe Norfolk and Carolina Railroad; and in 1913 tbe boundaries of tbe city were extended so as to include, with other terri*551tory, that part of the Wilson road lying between…