Wardens St. Peter's Episcopal Church v. Town of Washington
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil actioN, tried on complaint and demurrer at Spring Term, 1891, of Beaufort Superior Court, Bryan, J., presiding. The ordinance in question was as follows: “Ordinance XXXIII. — No interment of the dead shall be made within the corporate limits of the town of Washington, N. C., nor shall the Clerk issue the permit for any such burial; nor shall the body'of any person dying within the corporate limits of the town be removed therefrom without a permit from the Town Clerk,…
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Civil actioN, tried on complaint and demurrer at Spring Term, 1891, of Beaufort Superior Court, Bryan, J., presiding. The ordinance in question was as follows: “Ordinance XXXIII. — No interment of the dead shall be made within the corporate limits of the town of Washington, N. C., nor shall the Clerk issue the permit for any such burial; nor shall the body'of any person dying within the corporate limits of the town be removed therefrom without a permit from the Town Clerk, and no permit shall be given by the Clerk where there has been an attending physician without a certificate from said…
1Opinion of the Court
Claek, J.:
The plaintiffs in this action seek to have a town ordinance declared void, and an injunction against enforcing the same. The ordinance in question had been authorized in terms by an act of the Legislature (1876-77, Pr. Acts, ch. 34), and has since been recited and declared “valid and legal” by two Acts, Pr. Laws 1891, chaps. 110 and 223.
It is unnecessary, however, that we pass upon the question debated before us as to the power of the Legislature to authorize or to validate the ordinance in the exercise of the police power inherent in the State, for we have an express authority, if…
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