Burnet v. Commissioners of Bladen County
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by plaintiffs from Bond, J., at chambers, 18 September, 1922, from BladeN. Civil action to restrain the defendants from levying and collecting certain special school taxes in Brown Marsh Township School District, Bladen County, upon the alleged ground that the elections under which said taxes were approved by a majority of the qualified voters resident within the district were illegally held, and are therefore void.
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Appeal by plaintiffs from Bond, J., at chambers, 18 September, 1922, from BladeN. Civil action to restrain the defendants from levying and collecting certain special school taxes in Brown Marsh Township School District, Bladen County, upon the alleged ground that the elections under which said taxes were approved by a majority of the qualified voters resident within the district were illegally held, and are therefore void. From an order denying the application for injunctive relief, plaintiffs appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtStacy, J.
It is alleged in the complaint and admitted in the answer that on 25 April, 1921, the whole of Brown Marsh Township, Bladen County, comprising four nonspecial tax districts and one special tax district, was consolidated by the board of education of said county into one township high school district. Thereafter, on 6 June, 1921, an election was ordered in said consolidated district, or township, to ascertain the will of the people in regard to levying “a special annual tax of not more than 30 cents on the $100 valuation of property and 90 cents on each poll within said district to supplement…
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