Trustees of the Goldsboro Graded School v. Broadhurst
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil action, tried before Whitaker, J., at Spring Term, 1891, of Wayne Superior Court. In pursuance of the statute (Acts 1881, ch. 189), an election was held in Goldsboro township, in the county of Wayne, on the fourth Monday in May, 1881, to take the sense of the voters therein as to establishing therein graded schools as contemplated by that statute, and at that election a majority of the qualified, voters of the township voted in favor of establishing such schools and to…
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Civil action, tried before Whitaker, J., at Spring Term, 1891, of Wayne Superior Court. In pursuance of the statute (Acts 1881, ch. 189), an election was held in Goldsboro township, in the county of Wayne, on the fourth Monday in May, 1881, to take the sense of the voters therein as to establishing therein graded schools as contemplated by that statute, and at that election a majority of the qualified, voters of the township voted in favor of establishing such schools and to levy the tax to support the same. Afterwards, the statute (Acts 1887, ch. 382) amended and modified as therein provided…
1Opinion of the Court
MbekimoN, C. J.:
The single distinct question raised by the assignment of error for our decision is: “Are the Board of Commissioners of the county of Wayne charged and required by the statutes (Act 1881, ch. 189; Act 1887, ch. 382; Act 1891, ch. 206), all or any one of them, to annually levy a tax, as prescribed, upon the taxable property and polls of Goldsboro township in said county to pay the interest as the same shall come due, and to provide a sinking fund to pay the principal when the same shall mature, of the bonds in question ? ” It is insisted that this question must be decided in the…
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