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HOBBS v. COUNTY OF MOORE

No. 528.

149 S.E.2d 1 (1966)

267 N.C. 665

James D. HOBBS and John C. Grier, Jr., on behalf of Themselves and all Other Citizens and Taxpayers of Moore County v. COUNTY OF MOORE and John M. Currie, W. Lynn Martin, J. M. Pleasants, W. Sidney Taylor and Wiley Purvis, constituting the Board of County Commissioners of Moore County, S. C. Riddle, J. Hubert McCaskill and Coy S. Lewis, Sr., constituting the Moore County Board of Elections, and T. Wade Bruton, Attorney General of the State of North Carolina.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

July 6, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Smith, Leach, Anderson & Dorsett, by Henry A. Mitchell, Jr., Raleigh, and Pollock & Fullenwider, by R. F. Hoke Pollock, Southern Pines, for plaintiff appellants.

Boyette & Brogden and William D. Sabiston, Jr., Carthage, for defendant appellees.

LAKE, Justice.

The first step in the solution of this matter is to construe the 1965 Act, Chapter 1051 of the Session Laws of 1965. It is well established that an act of the General Assembly must be held void if it is so loosely and obscurely drawn as to be incapable of enforcement. State v. Morrison, 210 N.C. 117, 185 S.E. 674; State v. Partlow, 91 N.C. 550; Drake v. Drake, 15 N.C. 110. In the Drake case, Ruffin, C. J., said:

"Whether a statute be a public...

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