State v. Gibbs

The purpose of Chapter 539 of Public-Local Laws of 1933, as shown by its title, is to protect hunting and fishing and timber reservations in Yancey County, and the Act provides: “that it shall be unlawful for any person to enter upon any hunting and fishing or timber reservation in Yancey County, without a written permission from the owner . . .”

The properties protected by the Act are “reservations.” The word reservation as applied to a description of land has a definite, specific meaning. It is defined in Webster as “a tract of public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for…