Mills v. Board of Commissioners
Supreme Court of North Carolina
CONTROVERSY submitted without action before Long, J., in Iredell, 28 January, 1918. On full presentation of facts, the controversy submitted was whether plaintiffs, citizen residents and taxpayers of said county, were entitled to an injunction against defendant board, restraining them frpm the proposed issuance and sale of bonds of the county to the amount of $40,000, pursuant to chapter 575, Public-Local Laws of the General Assembly of 1917, ratified 5 March, 1917, for the…
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CONTROVERSY submitted without action before Long, J., in Iredell, 28 January, 1918. On full presentation of facts, the controversy submitted was whether plaintiffs, citizen residents and taxpayers of said county, were entitled to an injunction against defendant board, restraining them frpm the proposed issuance and sale of bonds of the county to the amount of $40,000, pursuant to chapter 575, Public-Local Laws of the General Assembly of 1917, ratified 5 March, 1917, for the purpose of rebuilding bridges over the Catawba River between Iredell and Catawba counties in conjunction with the…
1Opinion of the CourtHoke, J.
In several cases coming before us at the last Term, Read v. Durham, and others, it was held, Associate Justice Walicer delivering the opinion, that the recent constitutional amendments were valid as parts of our organic law, and that the same became effective on 10 January, 1917, as provided by the statute submitting such amendments for ratification to the people, this on the ground chiefly that as the act providing ■for tbe election fixed upon 10 January as tbe day, tbe people, in ratifying tbe amendments pursuant to tbe act, thereby determined tbe date in accord witb its provisions.
Tbe act…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Bennett v. Board of CommissionersSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1917
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