Legal Opinion
Groves v. . Barden
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided April 14, 1915PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The Constitution, Art XIV, sec. 7, declares that "No person who shall hold any office or place of trust or profit under the United States or any department thereof, or under this State, or under any other State or government, shall hold or exercise any other office or place of trust or profit under the authority of this State, or be eligible to a seat in either house of the General Assembly."
The line between "offices" and "places of trust or profit" within (9) the meaning of the Constitution has not been clearly marked, principally because they approach each other so closely, and are in all…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- United States v. HartwellSupreme Court of the United States · 1868
- United States v. GermaineSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
- United States v. MouatSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
- United States v. SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
- State Ex Rel. Barnhill v. ThompsonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1898
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3Cited by22 opinions
- State ex rel. Holloway v. SheatsSupreme Court of Florida · 1919
- State v. SowardsCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1938
- State v. DarkSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1940
- State Ex Rel. Harris v. WatsonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1931
- Shelmadine v. City of ElkhartIndiana Court of Appeals · 1921
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