Marshburn v. . Jones
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Th-is is an appeal by defendants from tbe order of Stacy, J., continuing to tbe bearing a restraining order against tbe defendants allowing tbeir live-stock to run at large in Pender County, wbicb was beard by consent of all parties at Wilmington, 8 July, 1918.
1Opinion of the CourtClaek, C. J.
Tbe General Assembly of 1913, chapters 248 and 276 placed tbe county of Pender within tbe public policy now prevailing over nine-tentbs of tbe territory of tbis State, under wbat is known as tbe “no-fence” law, by wbicb stock are not allowed to run at large on tbe lands of others than tbeir owners, and requires that such owners shall fence up tbeir stock instead of other people fencing them out in order to protect tbeir crops.
Tbe Legislature, by Public-Local Laws 1915, chapters 116 and 505, permitted tbe people of a certain part of Pender County to decide by vote whether they should return to…
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