Supreme Court of North Carolina May 25, 1908 (Southern Railway Co. v. Board of Commissioners)

CONNOR, J.

For the purpose of disposing of the question which confronts us at the threshold of this controversy, the following facts found by his Honor are sufficient: The defendant board of commissioners, in whom is vested by law the power and duty of assessing and levying county taxes, at its meeting in June, 1901, levied the following taxes upon each $100 worth of all of the real and personal