Armstrong v. Stedman.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
AotioN by J. S. Armstrong and others against F. H. Stedman, Sheriff, and others, heard by Judge O. II. Allen, at December Term, 1901, of the Superior Court of New Hanover County. From judgment for the defendants, the plaintiffs appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
This is an action in which the main relief sought by the plaintiffs is an injunction to perpetually restrain the defendant Stedman, Sheriff of New Hanover County, and Collector for the city of Wilmington, from collecting certain taxes assessed by the proper authorities of New Hanover County, and by those of the city of Wilmington, for the year 1891.
In the first cause of action, the relief is sought because of alleged invalidity of the entire Revenue Act of 1901; in the second cause of action the assessment of the taxes therein mentioned was alleged to be void because the taxing authorities…
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