Brown v. . Spray
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from Webb, J., from Haywoód, and by consent beard and determined at Bryson City, 23 October, 1911. Civil action to obtain mandamus directing tax collector, etc., to pay moneys realized by sale of bonds, etc., collected for school purposes, to plaintiff as treasurer of board of graded-school trustees. There was judgment for plaintiff, and defendant excepted and appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHoke, J.
By statute, Private Laws 1907, cb. 237, tbe General Assembly authorized tbe town of Canton, Haywood County, on approval of voters of tbe town, to issue bonds in tbe sum of $65,000 for water supply, sewerage, electric lights, a graded-sehool building, and street improvements, and to lay a special tax to pay accruing interest, etc. By section 11 of tbe act, tbe town is constituted tbe “Canton Graded-sehool District for "White and Colored Children,” and in subsequent sections a school board is created, having general management and control of tbe schools therein; a special tax is levied for the…
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