Jones v. Nash County General Hospital

Authority and responsibility for the selection of sites for county hospitals authorized under Chapter 131 of the General Statutes are vested in the county commissioners and the official board of the hospital. G.S. § 153-9; G.S. § 131-126.18, et seq.

The courts may not interfere with the exercise of the discretionary powers of local administrative boards for the public welfare “unless their action is so clearly unreasonable as to amount to an ,op pressive and manifest abuse of their discretion.” Barnhill, J., (later C.J.) speaking for our Supreme Court in Mullen v. Louisburg, 225 N.C. 53, 33…