Commissioners of Trenton v. McDaniel
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was an action of trespass, tried before Sadndees, J., at the last Ball Term of Jones Superior Court. The plaintiffs declared .for a seizure of a hog, and offered evidence of the incorporation of the town of Trenton, as is-hereinafter set out. Eirst, they gave in evidence an act, passed in 1784, entitled “ An act for establishing a town in the county of Jones, upon the lands of Thomas Webber ai d others.”
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This was an action of trespass, tried before Sadndees, J., at the last Ball Term of Jones Superior Court. The plaintiffs declared .for a seizure of a hog, and offered evidence of the incorporation of the town of Trenton, as is-hereinafter set out. Eirst, they gave in evidence an act, passed in 1784, entitled “ An act for establishing a town in the county of Jones, upon the lands of Thomas Webber ai d others.” The first section of this act recites, that “ whereas, it is represented to the General Assembly, that a town on the lands of Thomas Webber, Louis Bryan, &o., &c., on the south side of…
1Opinion of the CourtPkaeson, C. J.
We concur with his Honor, in the opinion, that neither of the objections, taken on the part of the defendant, are tenable.
1. The several acts of the Legislature, set out as a part of the case, connected with the fact, “ that the place” has been inhabited as a town, and has been laid off into lots and streets, with known lines, among others, the line which was crossed by the hog of the defendant, for upwards of sixty years, show that it is incorporated with “ defined limits and boundaries.”
The act of 1784, empowers certain persons as trustees and directors to purchase one hundred acres, and 1o…
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