State Ex Rel. Shennonhouse v. Withers
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil aotioN for the recovery of the office of cotton weigher for the City of Charlotte, brought by the relator ’against the defendants and tried before Iloke, J., and a jury at Fall Term, 1897, of Mecklenburg Superior Court on an agreed statement of facts (which are summarized in the opinion of Montgomery, J.) Upon the facts agreed, his Honor directed the jury to answer the issues “no,” and gave judgment against the plaintiff who appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Montgomery, J.:.
The first Section of Chapter 30 of the Private Laws of 1885, provides for the election of a cotton weigher for the City of Charlotte in the following language: “That the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Charlotte, and the County Commissioners for the County of Mecklenburg in joint session, and presided over by the Mayor of the City, on the first Monday in September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty four, and every year thereafter, shall elect one cottoix weigher for the City of Charlotte . . .” At eleven o’clock a. m. on the 1st Monday in September of the…
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