Bear v. Board of County Commissioners
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil action for mandamus heard before Mclver, J., at Fall Term, 1897, of Brunswick Superior Court. Upon the facts found by his Honor (which are set out in the opinion of Chief Justice Faircloth) he denied the application for the mandamus and plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Faircloth, O. J.:
This action is brought to compel the defendant to levy a tax on all the subjects of taxation in the county, sufficient to pay the plaintiff’s judgments set out in the complaint. The case agreed, upon the facts found by the Court, states that the judgments sued on were obtained in 1894 in certain actions by the plaintiff against the defendant, on former judgments obtained by the plaintiff against the defendant in the year 1888; that the causes of action on which the said judgments of 1888 were obtained were school claims as alleged in the answer; that there is nothing in the…
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