State ex rel. Ward v. Board of County Commissioners

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Harvey, J.:

This was an action for a declaratory judgment seeking a construction of G. S. 1935, 19-1503, as affected by the cash-basis law, the budget law and the tax-limitation law, as applied to the facts alleged in the petition and conceded to be correct. As these statutes are interpreted by plaintiff, it was entitled to a decree enjoining defendant from proceeding as it proposes to do in financing the building of a courthouse and jail to replace a courthouse destroyed by fire; as interpreted by defendant such a decree was not authorized. The trial…