Case Name: Trustees of the University vs. Foy
Court: North Carolina Superior Court
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1805-12
Citations: 2 Hayw. 374
Docket Number: 
Parties: Trustees of the University vs. Foy.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 374–375

Head Matter:
Trustees of the University vs. Foy.
npHE court nov/ gave their opinions in this cause. Locked Judge. — The Assembly cannot by passing an act of Assembly take away property frern a private person, nor a common corporation, much less i'rorp the trustees of the University; that being established by the constitution itself, or what is the same thing, in pursuance of a direction in the constitution. I am therefore of opinion, that the repealing act, 1800, cb. 5, the object of which is to resume the escheated property g "anted to the trustees by the former acts, is repugnant to the constitution, and void.

Opinion:
Macar/, Judge.
I am of the same opinion»