G I SURPLUS STORE, INC. v. HUNTER

No. 237.

125 S.E.2d 764 (1962)

257 N.C. 206

G I SURPLUS STORE, INC., a corporation, Mecklenburg Surplus Company, a corporation, Clark's Charlotte, Inc., a corporation, and Atlantic Mills of N. C., Inc., a corporation, on behalf of themselves and such other persons, firms and corporations as are similarly affected by North Carolina General Statute § 14-346.2, Plaintiffs, v. J. Clyde HUNTER, Sheriff of Mecklenburg County, John Hord, Chief, Charlotte Police Department, and G. A. Stephens, Chief, Mecklenburg County Rural Police Department, Defendants.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 23, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Boyle, Alexander & Wade, Charlotte, and Cannon & Wolfe, Greensboro, for plaintiffs-appellants.

John T. Morrisey, Sr., Dockery, Ruff, Perry, Bond & Cobb and G. H. Warlick, Charlotte, for defendants-appellees.


BOBBITT, Justice.

Plaintiffs assert, as their sole ground of attack, that the 1961 Act is "unconstitutionally vague, uncertain and indefinite, in violation of Article I, Section 17, of the North Carolina Constitution and the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution."

The term, "law of the land," as used in the cited provision of the North Carolina Constitution, is synonymous with...

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