City of Greensboro v. Smith

This appeal does not present for decision the question whether the City Council of Greensboro by the adoption of Chapter 73 of its Code gave legal existence to the Greensboro War Memorial Fund Commission. Whatever legal efficacy, if any, this Commission may have had in the first instance merged into the legislative act, Chapter 436, Session Laws of 1945, and upon its ratification on 8 March, 1945, the Commission as a legal entity became solely the creature'of the General Assembly of North Carolina, deriving all its legal functions and powers from that body. Thenceforth, the City Council of…