Harper v. Commissioners of New Hanover County
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by J ohn W. Harper and others against the Board of Commissioners of New Hanover County, heard by Judge R. B. Peebles, at Chambers, in Wilmington, N. C., during May Term, 1903, of the Superior Court of New Hanover County. From a judgment fon the plaintiffs the defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
By the provisions of chapter 290, Laws 1899, the whole of New Hanover County, "except that portion which lies between the Cape Fear River and the Northeast Cape Fear River," was placed under the "stock law," and the commissioners directed to build all necessary fences, etc. By chapter 56, Laws 1903, entitled "An act to repeal the stock law in Federal Point Township in New Hanover County," ratified 29 January, 1903, it was enacted that "from and after 1 June, 1903, the act of 1899 shall not apply to that portion of New Hanover described in said act." Section 2 of this act directs the…
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