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NORTH CAROLINA ASS'N OF LIC. DETECTIVES v. MORGAN

No. 7310SC64.

195 S.E.2d 357 (1973)

17 N.C. App. 701

NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF LICENSED DETECTIVES and Detective Service of North Carolina, Inc. v. Robert MORGAN, Attorney General of the State of North Carolina, and Charles Dunn, Director, North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

March 28, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Robert Morgan by Associate Atty. Gen. Ann Reed and Asst. Atty. Gen., Richard B. Conely for defendants appellees.

Smith, Patterson, Follin & Curtis by Marion G. Follin, III, Greensboro, for plaintiffs appellants.

CAMPBELL, Judge.

Appellants concede that the State may regulate the private detective business by the issuance of licenses to persons who meet specified qualifications. There is authority supporting such regulation. Lehon v. Atlanta, 242 U.S. 53, 37 S.Ct. 70, 61 L. Ed. 145 (1916).

Private or special police are public officers, Tate v. R.R., 205 N.C. 51, 169 S. E. 816 (1933), and, therefore, a proper subject of regulation by...

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