City of Wilmington v. . Davis
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN, to recover a penalty, brought before Cantwell, J., at April Term 1869 of the Special Court of the City of Win--HINGTON. No statement of facts here is necessary. Judgment for the plaintiff, from which the defendant ■.appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtRodmaN, J.
This was an action brought before the Special 'Court of the City of Wilmington, to recover the penalty for a violation of an ordinance of that city in keeping open a barber .shop on Sunday. A question of jurisdiction meets us on the threshold, which cannot be avoided: Has the Special Court ■of the City of Wilmington any civil jurisdiction? Being a •Court ot limited and special jurisdiction, its jurisdiction must appear in all cases, and cannot be presumed, as it might be of -a Court of general jurisdiction. By an act ratified Aug. 11th 1868 (Acts of 1868, ch. 12, p. 13), the Legislature…
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