Weaver v. . Hampton

This action is brought under authority prescribed in C. S., 3206. The statute was discussed in Waddill v. Masten, 172 N. C., 582, 90 S. E., 694, in which case it was written: “Suits in protection \ of the rights and interests of the county, on the part of citizens and taxpayers, have been frequently entertained by the courts in this State, and, while they have usually been of an inhibitive character, as in re straint of incurring an unlawful indebtedness of levying unlawful taxes, etc., the same principles, in proper cases, will uphold recoveries for money wrongfully disposed of or withheld…