Worth v. Commissioners of Ashe County
Supreme Court of North Carolina
APPLICATION for Injunction heard at Fall Term, 1879, of Ashe Superior Court, before Schenck, J. The plaintiff is a- citizen of Ashe county and owns three hundred and sixty-four shares of, stock in the bank of Abing-don chartered and doing business in the state of Virginia.
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APPLICATION for Injunction heard at Fall Term, 1879, of Ashe Superior Court, before Schenck, J. The plaintiff is a- citizen of Ashe county and owns three hundred and sixty-four shares of, stock in the bank of Abing-don chartered and doing business in the state of Virginia. The stock in the bank is taxed by the laws of Virginia, and the defendant commissioners have listed the same for county and state taxes and placed the list in the hands of the sheriff of the county for collection. The plaintiff asks that defendants and their agents be restrained from collecting the said tax, and for…
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, J. C.
This case differs from Belo v. Com’rs, ante 415, in a single feature. The plaintiff Belo residing in Forsyth county, held stock in the North Carolina railroad company, a domestic corporation, and claimed relief on the ground that the company itself returned and paid taxes upon all its taxable estate, and hence the tax on his shares was cumulative upon the same property and not uniform. The plaintiff, in the present case, holds three hundred and sixty-four shares of capital stock in the bank of Abingdon, a foreign corporation, existing under the laws of, and doing business in, the…
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