Howerton v. . Tate

(161) By consent of parties, his Honor found the facts in the case, which are the same as stated in the suit between the same plaintiffs and defendants, decided at January Term, 1873, of this Court, and reported in 68 N.C. 546, and which (those pertinent to the question involved,) are set out in the opinion of Justice SETTLE.

Upon the facts found on the trial below, his Honor gave judgment, that the relators, (plaintiffs in this action,) were the rightful Board of Directors of the Eastern Division of the Western North Carolina Railroad, and not the defendants, and that the former be admitted…