Columbus Mills v. Williams
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from the Superior Court of Law of Rutherford County, at the Spring Term 1849, his Honor Judge Bailey presiding, to the Supreme Court at Morganton, and thence transferred, by an order of that Court, to the Supreme Court at Raleigh.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Law of Rutherford County, at the Spring Term 1849, his Honor Judge Bailey presiding, to the Supreme Court at Morganton, and thence transferred, by an order of that Court, to the Supreme Court at Raleigh. This was an action of trespass, vi et armis, for an as< sault and battery on the plaintiff’s person, tried at Rutherford Spring Term 1849, upon the following facts, submitted to the Court for judgment, as a case agreed. ' íhe General Assembly, at its session of 1840 and’7, passed an act establishing a County by the name of Polk, Out of certain portions of the…
1Opinion of the CourtPearson, J.
In 1S1G, the Legislature established a County by the name of “Folk" In pursuance thereof justices of the peace were appointed, Courts organized, and a sheriff and other County officers elected, who entered upon the discharge of the duties of their respective officers. In 184S the act of 1846 was repealed, and the question is presented, has the legislature a right, under the Constitution, to repeal an act, by which a County is established ?
From the formation of our State government, the Gen- < ral Assembly has, from time to time, changed the limits of Counties, and has, over and over again,…
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