Jones v. . Com'rs of Bladen Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil action, tried by Buxton, J., at Spring Term, 1873, of the Superior Court for Cumberland county. The suit was brought to the Spring Term, 1873, of the Court of Cumberland county, at which term the plaintiff, a. resident of that county, filed his complaint, seeking the. recovery of a bond given by the chairman of the late Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Bladen county, in December,. 1864, for $16,000. Defendants appeared by counsel and moved to dimiss the suit for…
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Civil action, tried by Buxton, J., at Spring Term, 1873, of the Superior Court for Cumberland county. The suit was brought to the Spring Term, 1873, of the Court of Cumberland county, at which term the plaintiff, a. resident of that county, filed his complaint, seeking the. recovery of a bond given by the chairman of the late Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Bladen county, in December,. 1864, for $16,000. Defendants appeared by counsel and moved to dimiss the suit for want of jurisdiction, contending that the same should have been brought to the Superior Court of Bladen. His Honor being…
1Opinion of the CourtReade, J.
C. C. P., sec. 67, provides that actions against public officers shall be brought in the county where the cause of action arose. And we have already said in two cases Johnson v. Commissioners of Cleaveland, 67 N. C. Rep. 101, and Alexander v. Commissioners of McDowell, Ibid. 330, that suits against county commissioners ought to be brought in the county of which they are commissioners.
That is the only point in this case.
There is no error.
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Johnston v. Board of CommissionersSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1872
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- State Ex Rel. Cloman v. StatonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1878
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