Legal Opinion
In Re Housing Authority of City of Charlotte.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided June 7, 1951No. 522PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDenNY, J.
This Court upheld the constitutionality of the Housing Authorities Law enacted by the General Assembly in 1935, being Chapter 456 of the Public Laws of 1935, and codified in our General Statutes in Sections 157-1 to 157-60, inclusive, in the case of Wells v. Housing Authority, 213 N.C. 744, 197 S.E. 693. It was there decided that a housing authority created pursuant to the provisions of the Housing Authorities Law is a municipal corporation; that the act comprehends a public governmental purpose, and that the corporation is invested by it with a governmental function. This decision has been…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Housing Authority v. HigginbothamTexas Supreme Court · 1940
- Chapman v. Huntington, West Virginia, Housing AuthorityWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1939
- Zurn v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1945
- Wells v. Housing Authority of the City of WilmingtonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1938
- Stockus v. Boston Housing AuthorityMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
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3Cited by36 opinions
- Blumenschein v. Pittsburgh Housing AuthoritySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1954
- Singleton v. StewartSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1972
- Martin v. North Carolina Housing CorporationSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1970
- Gohld Realty Co. v. City of HartfordSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1954
- Crosby v. CrosbySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1967
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