Shaw v. . Kennedy

The defendant justified the taking on the following ground, viz., that the commissioners of the town of Fayetteville, under and by virtue of an act of the General Assembly, "for the better regulation of the town of Fayetteville, chapter 39, Laws 1787," passed the following ordinance, viz.:

"Whereas the several ordinances heretofore passed by the board of commissioners, and in force, against hogs running at large in the streets of the town, having been found ineffectual, it is again ordered that from and after the 15th day of June the town constable be, and he hereby is, authorized and required…