Weinstein v. Commissioners of the City of Newbern
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was an application for an injunction by the plaintiffs to restrain the defendants from collecting certain taxes, beard before GiarJce, J., in the county of Ceaven, at Chambers, June 2d, 1874. JIis Honor vacated the first restraining order granted, whereupon the plaintiffs appealed. The facts are fully set out in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtBynum, J.
The amendment to the charter of the eity of Newbern, ratified the 6th of April, 1871, limiting the taxation for all purposes to $6,000, and for other purposes, if valid, might defeat the objects of the charter itself by putting an end to all eity government, for the want of means for its due support and efficient administration. We express no opinion upon its validity, because the case turns upon the provisions of the Constitution.
Article VII, see. 7, of the Constitution provides that “ no county, city, town or other municipal corporation, shall contract any debt, pledge its faith or loan its…
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