FULGHUM v. TOWN OF SELMA

No. 238.

76 S.E.2d 368 (1953)

238 N.C. 100

FULGHUM v. TOWN OF SELMA. GRIFFIS et al. v. TOWN OF SELMA.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 12, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lyon & Lyon, Smithfield, for plaintiffs, appellants.

W. I. Godwin, Selma, and Wellons, Martin & Wellons, Smithfield, for defendant, appellee.


ERVIN, Justice.

There may be more than a modicum of truth in the assertion of the plaintiffs that the defendant enacted the ordinance and its amendment for the coercive purpose of inducing Fulghum to abandon his water service to the inhabitants of Selma Mill Village and transfer his pipe lines to the defendant at less than their value. Be this as it may, we must remember that hard cases are the quicksands of the law and confine ourselves to our appointed task of declaring...

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