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| State v. Tenant, 14 SE 387, 389 (N.C. 1892). This case did not involve a bicyclist or a question regarding bicycling, but the referenced page includes this passage: "The case of State v. Yopp ... stands upon a very different principle. While the legislature has no right to enact a law forbidding all men in a certain section from building houses of any kind on their own land, it unquestionably is empowered to forbid riding bicycles on a particular road or street altogether, because the lives of other persons, and the safety of the property of others, are imperiled by their use, on account of the danger of frightening horses attached to vehicles. Sic utere tuo ut non alienum laedas. Having power to prohibit using bicycles on the road entirely, the legislature had the same power to authorize a person or tribunal to grant a license, when the road should be clear of vehicles, that it has to provide for licensing the sale of spirituous liquors." | ||||
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