Wikel v. Board of Commissioners
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil acttoN, for a mandamus to compel the defendants, the Board of Commissioners of JaoKSON county, to build a bridge, heard before Timberlake, J., at Spring Term, 1896, of JaoKSON Superior Court. A peremptory mandamus was granted and defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
ClaeK, J.:
This was an application for a m andamm against the County Commissioners of Jackson county to compel them to build a certain bridge over the Tuckaseegee river and levy a tax for that purpose, as required by Chapter 12,- Acts 1895. The defendants filed a demurrer denying the power of the Legislature to enact such Statute. The demurrer was overruled, and the defendants, uot availing themselves of the leave granted them to answer over, judgment for a peremptory mandamus and for costs was given against them, from which they appealed. Bending the appeal to this court, tbe Legislature, by…
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