Commissioners of Robeson County v. Lewis
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant from Bond, J., at September Term, 1916, of EOBESON. This is an action by the Board of Commissioners of Eobeson County and the National Bank of Lumberton against E. E. Lewis, sheriff, the First National Bank of Lumberton, and the Board of Drainage Commissioners of Back Swamp, and Jacob Swamp Drainage District, to compel the defendant bank to turn over the money belonging to said drainage district to the plaintiff bank, the plaintiff claiming to be the…
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Appeal by defendant from Bond, J., at September Term, 1916, of EOBESON. This is an action by the Board of Commissioners of Eobeson County and the National Bank of Lumberton against E. E. Lewis, sheriff, the First National Bank of Lumberton, and the Board of Drainage Commissioners of Back Swamp, and Jacob Swamp Drainage District, to compel the defendant bank to turn over the money belonging to said drainage district to the plaintiff bank, the plaintiff claiming to be the legal depository thereof, under chapter 46, Public-Local Laws 1917, and the defendant bank claiming to be entitled to the…
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
The right of the plaintiff bank to the possession and custody of the assessments and other money belonging to the defendant, drainage district, depends on the construction of chapter 46, Public-Local Laws 1917, under which the bank was appointed the depository of certain money described in the act, and upon the validity of the contract between the drainage commissioners and the defendant, with whom the money is now deposited, and a correct determination of the questions involved require a review of the pertinent parts of chapter 442, Public Laws 1909, as amended by chapters 67 and 205, Public…
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