Brown v. Commissioners of Hertford
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil actioN, tried before Graves, J., at Fall Term, 1887, of Hertford Superior Court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
MerruioN, J.,
This is a controversy, submitted to the Court below without action, as allowed by the statute, (The Code, §§ 567-569). The plaintiffs are tax payers of Mur-freesboro Township, in the Comity of Hertford, and the defendants are the commissioners of that county.
The statute (Acts 1887, ch. 365) incorporates The Murfreesboro Railroad Company, and sections fourteen and thirty-one thereof, provide as follows:
Sec. 14. “ That Murfreesborough Township, in Hertford County, and Town of Murfreesboro, in said county, may subscribe to the capital stock of The Murfreesboro Railroad Company, or…
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