Hooker v. . Pitt County

Stacy," C. J".

Plaintiffs having profited from a reduction in tbe valuation of their properties, rather than suffered from any. increase therein, and tbe rate levied for general county purposes being within tbe limit fixed by tbe Constitution, both causes of action were properly dismissed as wanting in any basis for equitable relief. Glenn v. Comrs. of Durham, 201 N. C., 233; Wilson v. Green, 135 N. C., 343, 47 S. E., 469.

Speaking to a situation similar to that disclosed by plaintiffs’ alleged first cause of action, in R. R. v. Commissioners, 82 N. C., 260, Smith, C. J., delivering the opinion…