Hite v. . Goodman
Supreme Court of North Carolina
CeRtain runaway slaves having .committed great outrages in the county of Gates, several magistrates of that county assembled at the court-house to deliberate upon the propriety of calling upon the colonel of the county to order out the militia for the purpose of apprehending them.
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CeRtain runaway slaves having .committed great outrages in the county of Gates, several magistrates of that county assembled at the court-house to deliberate upon the propriety of calling upon the colonel of the county to order out the militia for the purpose of apprehending them. This meeting was held during the recess between the regular terms of the County Court, and at it the following order was made: “ Ordered, that a reward of sixteen hundred dollars be given for the apprehension of negroes Jim, &c., (four in number,) or four hundred dollars for each,” The plaintiffs alleged that three…
1Opinion of the Court
Gaston, Judge,
after stating the facts as above, proceeded: — It has not been and will not be pretended, that in its terms this order is a personal undertaking on the part of these individuals to pay the reward. It purports to be a command issued by the embodied magistracy of the county, to that county and its fiscal officers. If it can be regarded in the nature of an engagement, it must be viewed as professing, and as credited by the plaintiffs, to be, not the engagement of the defendants, but the engagement of the county of Gates. But it is admitted on all hands, that the order for the…
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