U.S. Circuit Court for the District of North Carolina July 1, 1793 (Anonymous)

Sir Nicholas Hyde, C. J. Jones, J. and Whitlock, J.

said that without some precedent, they would not examine the equity. They thought that the case ought to be decided according to the conscience of the Mayor alone, and it does not belong to the King’s Bench to examine whether his decree be equitable or not: No more than in case of a Spiritual Court, this court does not examine, whether they