Supreme Court of North Carolina October 5, 1883 (Stanly v. Richmond & Danville Railroad)

Ssiith, C. J.

While the principle seems to be well settled that in actions by corporations of whose existence, or the law of their being, the court cannot take judicial notice, as it must of municipal and public corporations, under our former system of pleading it was not necessary the declaration should aver the plaintiff to be such, there is much diversity in the adjudications as to whether,