Hill v. . Skinner
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil actioN, beard before 0. II. Allen, J., at Oxford, on 27 July, 1915, upon an application for an injunction. Upon tbe granting of the injunction defendants appealed.
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Civil actioN, beard before 0. II. Allen, J., at Oxford, on 27 July, 1915, upon an application for an injunction. Upon tbe granting of the injunction defendants appealed. Plaintiffs sought to enjoin the defendants, as mayor and aldermen of the city of Durham, from issuing bonds of said city in the sum of $500,000, and from levying any tax for the payment of the principal or interest thereof, for the purpose of providing a municipally owned system of waterworks under Private Laws 1913, ch. 336, or any other supposed authority of law. An election was held in said city, at which the question of…
1Opinion of the Court
ALLEN, J., dissenting; HOKE, J., concurring in the dissenting opinion. Plaintiffs sought to enjoin the defendants, as mayor and aldermen of the city of Durham, from issuing bonds of said city in the sum of $500,000, and from levying any tax for the payment of the principal or interest thereof, for the purpose of providing a municipally owned system of waterworks under Private Laws 1913, ch. 336, or any other supposed authority of law. An election was held in said city, at which the question of issuing the said bonds was submitted to the people, in accordance with an order of defendants at a…
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