Griffin v. . Commissioners of Pasquotank

(See the Syllabus in the preceding case of French and McRae v. TheCommissioners of New Hanover County, ante, page 692.) The plaintiffs, for themselves and for all others who would (702) come in and be made parties to this proceeding, alleged that the defendants in the month of ______, 1875, levied upon the taxable property of Pasquotank County, a tax of one hundred cents on the one hundred dollars of taxable property, which exceeds the limit fixed by the Constitution by eight thousand dollars, or seventy-three and one-third cents on the hundred dollars of taxable property.

That the tax levied…