Jones v. Commissioners
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by A. Gr. Jones and others against tbe Board of Commissioners of Stokes County, pending in tbe Superior Court of StoKes, and beard by Judge Cr. W. Ward, by consent, at chambers at Winston, on 12 October, 1906, upon tbe pleadings and agreement of facts.
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ActioN by A. Gr. Jones and others against tbe Board of Commissioners of Stokes County, pending in tbe Superior Court of StoKes, and beard by Judge Cr. W. Ward, by consent, at chambers at Winston, on 12 October, 1906, upon tbe pleadings and agreement of facts. In 1880 Sauratown. and Meadows townships in Stokes County, under tbe authority of chapter 67, Laws 1879, voted to subscribe $6,660.66 each to tbe capital stock of the Cape Eear and Yadkin Yalley Railroad Company to procure said railroad to be built through their respective townships, and to levy a tax on said townships to pay the…
1Opinion of the Court
DEFENDANT^ APPEAL.
Clase, O. J.,
after stating the case: The townships named in the act having, by the extra taxation they had imposed upon themselves, procured the building through their territory of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Eailroad, now the property of the Southern Eailway Company, the General Assembly thought it just and equitable that the county taxes derived from such property in those townships should be expended exclusively in said townships “in repairing roads, building bridges, extending schools or such other purposes as the Commissioners may deem best,” until the amount so…
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