Jones v. . Commissioners

In 1880 Sauratown and Meadows townships in Stokes County, under the authority of chapter 67, Laws 1879, voted to subscribe $6,660.66 each to the capital stock of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley railroad Company to procure said railroad to be built through their respective townships, and to levy a tax on said townships to pay the subscription, which has since been fully paid up. The road was built through said townships and has since become the property of the Southern Railway Company. Meadows Township has been divided into two townships, Meadows and Danbury.

In 1887 said Sauratown Township,…