Berry v. City of Durham

Ordinarily, and in the absence of legislative sanction, a city or town government is without power to enter on improvements of this character outside of the corporate limits, and for wrongs done by its agents and employees while engaged in such an enterprise the corporation itself may not be held liable. Love v. City of Raleigh, 116 N. C., 296; Ith McQuillan Municipal Corporations, sec. 1824.

In the citation to McQuillan it is said: “The general rule is, that, without legislative grant, the authority of the municipal corporation is confined to its own area; hence its acts and ordinances have…