Case Name: STATE against CROWELL
Court: Supreme Court of North Carolina
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1818-01
Citations: 1 Taylor 254
Docket Number: 
Parties: STATE against CROWELL.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 4
Pages: 254–254

Head Matter:
STATE against CROWELL.
contracts*110 with the C’ty Trustees to keep a bridge imhcSblefor heg-tect of at duty.
The Defendant was presented by the Grand Jury for § Nuisance, and the case was referred to this Court upon 4 . the question whether ah indictment could be sustained uPon the following statement of facts. That the Defend-ant is bound to keep up the Bridge described in the in-dictment, for seven years, for^ the due performance of which he executed a bond; that the time is not yet expired. The Bridge is admitted to be out of tepair. The Defendant is hot overseer of the roád.

Opinion:
Seawell J.
delivered the Opinion oí tne c^ourt
The taw authorizes the Trustees of the County Courts to contract for the building and repairs of Bridges.™ Whatevef the Trustees do under thiá áüthórity, they do ⅛. behalf of the public j and the Contract is substantially between the public and the ündertáket, through the instru-inent, the County court; and if the undertaker by not performing his agreement, occasions an inconvenience tor the public, he is indictable. There must be Judgment' for the State.