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  "id": 11278600,
  "name": "JOHN W. ATKINSON, Qui tam, v. GEO. W. WILLIAMS and D. R. MURCHISON",
  "name_abbreviation": "Atkinson v. Williams",
  "decision_date": "1869-06",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "592",
  "last_page": "593",
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      "type": "official",
      "cite": "63 N.C. 592"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.C.",
    "id": 9292,
    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
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    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
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    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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    "parties": [
      "JOHN W. ATKINSON, Qui tam, v. GEO. W. WILLIAMS and D. R. MURCHISON."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Reade, J.\n\u201c All rosin sold in the city of Wilmington shall be weighed,\u201d &c.; and \u201c Any person selling rosin in the city of Wilmington without its having been weighed as aforesaid, shall forfeit,\u201d &c., act 29th March, 1869. The seller and buyer in the present case lived in Wilmington, and the sale was made there, but the rosin was not there, but was in transitu to New York.\nThe question is, are the sellers liable to the penalty:\nThey are not. The act was intended to regulate the local market of Wilmington, in regard to things present and sold there. How could the rosin be weighed when it was not there ?\nWhether if the rosin had been sent out of the market and then sold t\u00a9 avoid the operation of the act the penalty would have attached, is a question not before us, because it is stated that the transaction was bona fide.\nThe judgment below is reversed, and judgment here for the defendants.\nPer Curiam. Judgment reversed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Reade, J."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Person, for the appellant.",
      "No counsel contra."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "JOHN W. ATKINSON, Qui tam, v. GEO. W. WILLIAMS and D. R. MURCHISON.\nThe penalty for selling rosin in Wilmington without having it weighed, given by act of 19th March 1869, is not incurred where the rosin when sold was in transitu from Wilmington to New Tori, although the parties to the sale were both at the time in Wiliningtiiii.'\nAction for a penalty, tried by Bussd, J., at New Hanover, Spring Term 1869. \u25a0\nThe rosin, in the sale of which it was alleged that the penalty had been incurred,' had left Wilmington the day before by steamer for New York,\" and was then'in'lr\u00e1\u00f1siiu,. The parties to the sale both resided iff Wilmington,\"and the1 transaction was baiia fidA. ' \u2018.. '\nHis Honor baying given judgment for theplaintiff, the defendant appealed.\nPerson, for the appellant.\nNo counsel contra."
  },
  "file_name": "0592-01",
  "first_page_order": 608,
  "last_page_order": 609
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