Broadfoot v. City of Fayetteville
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil, Actiow to enforce the payment of coupons matured upon bonds issued by the old Town of Fayetteville, tried before Bynum, J., at Fall Term, 1898, of CumbeblaND Superior Court.
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Civil, Actiow to enforce the payment of coupons matured upon bonds issued by the old Town of Fayetteville, tried before Bynum, J., at Fall Term, 1898, of CumbeblaND Superior Court. The complaint alleged that the plaintiff was the holder and owner of certain coupons matured upon bonds issued by rhe old Town of Fayetteville — that the defendant, the City of Fayetteville, was the successor to the Town, without any addition to its population, territory or taxable property and succeeding to all its rights, privileges, franchises and property, and was therefore liable for all its duties, burdens…
1Opinion of the Court
MoNtgom:eey, J.
Under the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of the session of 1881, the Charter of the town of Fayetteville was surrendered and repealed. At its session in 1883 the General Assembly created a taxing and police district out of the territory included in the boundaries of the old town of Fayetteville, the taxing and police district to be called Fayetteville. Under the last mentioned Act all of the property of the former town of Fayetteville was transferred to the custody and control of the Board of Oimmission-ers appointed by the General Assembly. The public buildings,…
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