Small v. Councilman of Edenton
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil actioN, tried before 0. II. Allen, J., and a jury, at Fall Term, 1907, of the Superior Court of Oi-iowan County. From judgment for defendants plaintiffs appealed. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
ClaeK, O. I.
The councilmen of the town of Edenton, after full notice and full public discussion, and after hearing petitions for and against it, adopted the following ordinance: “That all stationary awnings (that is, awnings with posts resting on tbe sidewalk) in the town of Edenton be removed by 1 February, 1907. Any person, firm or corporation owning such awning wbo fails to comply with said ordinance shall be fined fifty dollars, and the constable of Edenton shall remove such awning.” The plaintiffs were a firm who had a stationary awning in front of their store, extending over the…
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