IN RE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF CITY OF SALISBURY

No. 385.

70 S.E.2d 500 (1952)

235 N.C. 463

In re HOUSING AUTHORITY OF CITY OF SALISBURY, PROJECT NC-16-2.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 30, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Max Busby, Salisbury, for petitioner, Housing Authority of City of Salisbury, appellant.

Clement & Clement and Woodson & Woodson, Salisbury, for respondent, Trustees of Livingstone College, appellee.


JOHNSON, Justice.

In determining what property is necessary for a public housing site, a broad discretion is vested by statute in housing authority commissioners, to whom the power of eminent domain is delegated. G.S. § 157-11; G.S. § 157-50; G.S. § 40-37.

Indeed, so extensive is this discretionary power of housing commissioners that ordinarily the selection of a project site may become an issuable question, determinable by the court, on nothing...

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