Board of Com'rs v. Tome
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at Raleigh.
1Opinion of the Court
McDOWELL, District Judge.
By act of the Legislature of North Carolina (chapter 365, p. 640, Acts 1887) the Murfreesboro Railroad Company was incorporated and Murfreesboro township of Hertford county, which was by section 30 of the act created a “body politic and corporate” (the county commissioners being by said section made the corporate agents of the township), was authorized to subscribe to the stock of the said railroad company and to issue bonds in the payment of the subscription. This statute, so far as. is now material, does not differ essentially from the statute under consideration by…
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