Atkinson v. . Williams and Murchison
This text of 63 N.C. 592 (Atkinson v. . Williams and Murchison) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of North Carolina primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
“ All rosin sold in the city of Wilmington shall be weighed,” &c.; and “ Any person selling rosin in the city of Wilmington without its having been weighed as aforesaid, shall forfeit,” &c., act 29th March, 1869. The seller and buyer in the present case lived in Wilmington, and the sale was made there, but the rosin was not there, but was in transitu to New York.
The question is, are the sellers liable to the penalty:
They are not. The act was intended to regulate the local market of Wilmington, in regard to things present and sold there. How could the rosin be weighed when it was not there ?
Whether if the rosin had been sent out of the market and then sold t© avoid the operation of the act the penalty would have attached, is a question not before us, because it is stated that the transaction was bona fide.
The judgment below is reversed, and judgment here for the defendants.
Per Curiam. Judgment reversed.
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