Puitt v. Commissioners of Gaston County
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ACTION, heard by MacRae, Judge, at Chambers, on April 24th, 1884. The action was instituted to perpetually enjoin the defendants, commissioners, from levying certain taxes for the support of schools. His Honor refused to continue the restraining order to the hearing, and the plaintiffs appealed. The facts fully appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
* The decision in this case was rendered at the last Term, but the opinion was not filed in time for publication in the last volume of the Reports. The action was instituted to perpetually enjoin the defendants, commissioners, from levying certain taxes for the support of schools.
His Honor refused to continue the restraining order to the hearing, and the plaintiffs appealed.
The facts fully appear in the opinion. While in this action for a perpetual injunction against the collection of a certain tax, levied by the commissioners in further support of free education of children of the white race…
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