Belo v. Commissioners of Forsyth County
Supreme Court of North Carolina
APPLICATION for an Injunction heard at Fall Term, 1879, of Forsyth Superior Court, before Gilmer, J. The plaintiff’s application was granted and the defendant commissioners appealed,
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The plaintiff is the owner of three hundred and forty-five shares of the capital stock of the North Carolina railroad company, which have been assessed and charged with an ad valorem tax in the manner prescribed by law, and the tax list has been made out and delivered to the defendant, Hill, the sheriff of Forsyth, for collection. This suit is instituted to restrain him and the county com missioners from levying and collecting the tax, on the ground of alleged exemption under the charter of the company, and for the further reason that all proper taxes upon the taxable property of the company…
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