Kaperonis v. North Carolina State Highway Commission

The appellants have set out 45 assignments of error in the record on appeal in this case. It is not practical to undertake to ¡discuss them seriatim. We shall undertake, however, to discuss those questions raised ¡which we deem necessary -to a proper disposition of the appeal.

The ¡appellants ¡assign ¡a;s error the ruling of the ¡court below holding that G.S. 136-108 is constitutional and that the ¡plaintiffs were mot entitled to a jury trial in the hearing below.

The constitutionality oí this statute is 'attacked on the ground that it authorizes the trial judge to 'hear and determine any…