Legal Opinion
Board of Com'rs of Onslow County v. Tollman
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided May 1, 1906No. 646PublishedCited by 8 opinions
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for tne Eastern District of North Carolina, at Wilmington.
1Opinion of the Court
McDOWEEU, District Judge.
This was a suit in equity, appellee being the complainant below. In 1885 the legislature of North Carolina passed an act (chapter 333, p. 439, Raws 1885) incorporating the Wilmington, Onslow & East Carolina Railroad Company. So much of that act as is here of importance reads as follows:
“Sec. 16. That any county, township, city or town along or near the line of said railroad, or at any terminal point thereof, or at or near the line of its extension, its branches, lateral or connecting roads, or at their terminal points, *756may subscribe to the capital stock of the said…
2Cases cited47 opinions
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Lasseter v. State ex rel. HallowesSupreme Court of Florida · 1914
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- Weaver v. . HamptonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1933
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