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34 N.C. 328

Love v. . Ramsour

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided August 5, 1851

Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1851-08-05

This case is similar to that or Love v Schenck, decided at this Term, except that the defendant was appointed County Trustee for Lincoln County, in March, 1846, and in the summer after, the sheriff of the county, by order of the County Court, paid to the defendant the sum of $1200-, which he then had of the fund, raised since March, 1842, for the purpose of building a Court House and Jail in Lincoln; and except further, that on or before the 1st of September, 1846, the…

Decided 1851-08-05

Ruffin, C. J.

¶1 The judgment must be affirmed. The act gives an action against the treasurer of public buildings or such officer of Lincoln as may have the lima in charge and it appears that the defen bnt was neither the *329 one nor the other. The act only applies to such persons as had the fund, or a part of it, in hand at the .passing of the act, or might have it afterwards. It could not charge the defendant upon the ground merely, that the money had passed through-his hands and been taken from him by the Court before the enactment of the statute.

¶2 Per Curiam. ' Judgment affirmed.

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