Jones v. Commissioners of Person County
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a Civil action, tried before Graves, J., at Fall Term, 1889, of Person Superior Court. The statute (Acts 1885, ch. 842, §§ 8, 9, 10), entitled “An act to renew the charter of the Roxboro Railroad Company, and for other purposes,” provides that the county of Person, or any township in that county, may subscribe for the capital stock of said railroad company- — -that townships respectively may subscribe for such stock not exceeding in its par value the sum of $10,000,…
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This was a Civil action, tried before Graves, J., at Fall Term, 1889, of Person Superior Court. The statute (Acts 1885, ch. 842, §§ 8, 9, 10), entitled “An act to renew the charter of the Roxboro Railroad Company, and for other purposes,” provides that the county of Person, or any township in that county, may subscribe for the capital stock of said railroad company- — -that townships respectively may subscribe for such stock not exceeding in its par value the sum of $10,000, and “if a majority of all the votes cast (at an election to be held) shall be ‘ for subscription,’ as in the statute…
1Opinion of the CourtMbrrimoN, C. J.
after stating the facts: A chief purpose of this action is to contest the validity of the election mentioned in the pleadings, and if it should be adjudged valid and sufficient, then to contest the correctness of the result thereof as ascertained and declared by the defendants, and .to this aspect of the case our attention is first directed.
It is not questioned that the statute (Acts 1885, ch. 342) authorized and required the defendants to cause such elec tion to be held in the contingency provided for. It appears, we think, very clearly, from the evidence, that they purported to do so by…
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