State Ex Rel. Hill and Another v. . Bonner and Others
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was an information, filed by the Solicitor of the Sixth Judicial Circuit against the defendants, as commissioners appointed under an Act of the General Assembly passed at the session of 1850-’51, to select a site for a permanent seat of justice for the County of Surry, to show cause wherefore writs of Prohibition and Mandamus should not issue against them, prohibiting their further proceedings in the sale of town lots, at a place selected by them, called DobsoN, and…
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This was an information, filed by the Solicitor of the Sixth Judicial Circuit against the defendants, as commissioners appointed under an Act of the General Assembly passed at the session of 1850-’51, to select a site for a permanent seat of justice for the County of Surry, to show cause wherefore writs of Prohibition and Mandamus should not issue against them, prohibiting their further proceedings in the sale of town lots, at a place selected by them, called DobsoN, and commanding them to select a site, agreeably to the provisions of said Act, near the centre of said County, having due…
1Opinion of the CourtNash, C. J.
At the session of the General Assembly in the year 1851, an Act was passed to divide the County of Surry, “provided a majority of free white men, entitled to vote for members of the House of Commons, shall vote for the same.” By the same Act the defendants were appointed commissioners “ to select and determine upon a site for a permanent seat of justice for Surry County, who shall locate the same as near the cen-tre of said County as a suitable location can be obtained, taking' into consideration both the extent of territory and population.” The commissioners, in their return, state that they…
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