Rodman v. Town of Washington
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil actior instituted by the plaintiff in the Superior Court of Beaufort County to restrain the defendants from collecting a tax levied under the provisions of Chapter 343, Acts of 18 97, for the support of graded schools in the town of Washington.
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Civil actior instituted by the plaintiff in the Superior Court of Beaufort County to restrain the defendants from collecting a tax levied under the provisions of Chapter 343, Acts of 18 97, for the support of graded schools in the town of Washington. A temporary restraining order was granted by Broion, J., on the 12th day of October, 1897, and was by consent transferred to and heard before Bryan, J., at Chambers in Greenville, N. C., on the 13th January, 1898, who rendered judgment restraining the taxes referred to in the affidavit of plaintiff, and defendants appealed. The affidavit, among…
1Opinion of the Court
Ftjrches, J.:
The plaintiff, a citizen and tax-payer of the town of Washington, brings this action to restrain the defendant from collecting certain taxes levied for school purposes under an Act of the General Assembly of North Carolina, being Chapter 348, Acts of 1897. This Act in terms authorizes the defendant to levy and collect a special tax, for school purposes, over and above the constitutional limitation. And under the provisions of said Act the defendant has levied and is proceeding to collect 20 cents on the $100 of taxable property and (10 cents on the taxable polls within the…
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