McMillan v. Commissioners of Robeson County
Supreme Court of North Carolina
MOTION to dismiss an appeal heard at Spring Term, 1883, of Robeson Superior Court, before MacRae, J. This was an appeal to the superior court from the action of the defendant board of commissioners in refusing to allow the plaintiff, late sheriff, certain credits on his accounts with the county. The defendants moved to dismiss the appeal. His Honor granted the motion, and the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtMerrimoN, J.
The county commissioners of Robeson county declined to allow the appellant, as the late sheriff of that county, credit in bis settlement with the county for certain taxes due and uncollected from insolvents, as directed by the statute (Acts 1881, oh. 183), and from their refusal to allow such credit he undertook to appeal to the superior court. That court, upon motion of the appellees, made an order dismissing the appeal, and the plaintiff appealed to this court.
It is manifest that the order of the court dismissing the supposed appeal was a proper one. The county commissioners, in the respect…
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