Norfolk Southern Railroad v. Forbes

The questions arising on this appeal are substantially the same as those which were decided in R. R. v. Reid, 187 N. C., 320. There the Norfolk Southern Railroad Company, one of the plaintiffs in the case now before us, alleged that the board of commissioners of Pasquotank County had levied a tax of 18 cents on all property of the value of $100, contrary to the provisions of Article Y, section 6, of the Constitution, and insisted that the tax in excess of 15 cents was levied, not for a special purpose, but for supplementing the general county fund. It insisted further that the provisions for…