State Ex Rel. Walser v. Bellamy
Supreme Court of North Carolina
AotioN by the State of North Carolina on the relation of Zeb Y. Walser, Attorney Genera!, W. R. Wood and others, against J. C. Bellamy and others, to have the rela-tors, other than the Attorney General and W. R. Wood, declared to be the trustees of the Central Hospital for the Insane, near Raleigh, and W. R. Wood declared to be the principal and resident physician of said hospital and to compel the defendants, who claim to be directors and superintendent of such hospital, to…
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AotioN by the State of North Carolina on the relation of Zeb Y. Walser, Attorney Genera!, W. R. Wood and others, against J. C. Bellamy and others, to have the rela-tors, other than the Attorney General and W. R. Wood, declared to be the trustees of the Central Hospital for the Insane, near Raleigh, and W. R. Wood declared to be the principal and resident physician of said hospital and to compel the defendants, who claim to be directors and superintendent of such hospital, to deliver it and the property thereof to relators, heard on a case agreed before Adams, J., at Chambees, in Raleigh, in…
1Opinion of the Court
MoNtgomeRt, J.:
The defendant, Kirby, at the time oí his election, and the other defendants, at the time of their appointment, were public officers and they are entitled to hold their offices, their terms not having yet expired, unless their right to the same has beeen divested by an Act of the last General Assem bly, ratified on the 8th day of March, 1897, and entitled “An Act to Charter the Eastern Hospital for the Colored Insane and the Western Hospital for the Insane and North Carolina Insane, at Raleigh, and to provide for their government.” In examining that Act with the view of arriving…
2Cases cited6 opinions
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- State v. . WilliamsSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1895
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