State Ex Rel. Speight v. Staton
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Parties — Tax Collector — Official Bonds — Fence Law. This is a civil action', tried upon complaint and demurrer, before MacRae, J, at Spring Term, 1889, of Edgecombe Superior Court.
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Parties — Tax Collector — Official Bonds — Fence Law. This is a civil action', tried upon complaint and demurrer, before MacRae, J, at Spring Term, 1889, of Edgecombe Superior Court. The action is prosecuted in the name of the State on relation of R. H. Speight, Chairman of the Board of Commissioners charged with the construction and repairs of a fence erected in a portion of Edgecombe County, under Chapter 367 of the Act of 1883, to recover of thp defendant Julia Staton, administratrix of John R Staton, the deceased Sheriff and tax collector, and the others, his sureties, the residue of the…
1Opinion of the CourtShith, C. J.
(after stating the case). The Act of 1881, circumscribing certain territory within the county of Pitt, and forbidding stock to go at large therein, directs the eon- struction of a fence around the boundary, and an assessment of a tax upon the real estate therein to build and keep it in repair. The amendment of 1883, which attaches an adjoining portion of the territory of Edgecombe, containing the same essential provisions, constitutes a board of Fence Commissioners and app >ints the members, to the chairman of which the tax collector — in the present case the Sheriff— “is to pay over the same…
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