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Wilkes County Vs. Coler

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Mar 18, 1901

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  1. Wadsworth Vs. Supervisors US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1880
  2. Post Vs. Supervisors US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1881
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  3. U.S. 506 (1901) U.S. Supreme Court Wilkes County v. Coler
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  4. U.S. 506 (1901) Wilkes County v. Coler
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  5. Wilkes County v. Call
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  6. Bank v. Commissioners
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  7. Commissioners v. Snuggs
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  8. Rodman v. Washington
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  9. Commissioners v. Payne
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  10. entered on the legislative journals, let us inquire as to the scope of the decisions in the above cases. In Bank v. Commissioners
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  11. entry on the journals essential to the validity of the act. These principles were again announced in Commissioners v. Snuggs
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  12. that fact. That provision of the Constitution (section 14 of Article 2) is mandatory, as we have decided in Bank v. Commissioners
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  13. These two decisions were followed in Rodman v. Washington
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  14. N.C. 39, 41 (1898), and Commissioners v. Payne
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  15. N.C. 432, 487 (1898). The same question arose in Wilkes County v. Call
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  16. To the above cases we may add that of State v. Patterson
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  17. Page 180 U. S. 517 After the decision in State v. Patterson
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  18. readings of a bill. The North Carolina cases cited by the defendants in support of this proposition are Brodnax v. Groom
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  19. Gatlin v. Tarboro
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  20. N.C. 119 (1878), and Scarborough v. Robinson
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  21. N.C. 409 (1879). Let us see what was involved in those cases. In Brodnax v. Groom
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  22. In Gatlin v. Tarboro
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  23. best and only proof is by the record. Our opinion on this point is supported by a recent decision in Illinois. Happel v. Brethauer
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  24. In Scarborough v. Robinson
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  25. the state constitution. Those cases arose under other provisions of the constitution. It is true that in Scarborough v. Robinson
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  26. Court in cases heretofore decided that a discussion of them upon principle is unnecessary. In Town of South Ottawa v. Perkins
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  27. judicial one, and must be so regarded by the courts of the United States. These principles were reaffirmed in Post v. Supervisors
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  28. Amoskeag Bank v. Ottawa
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  29. cases referred to in the certified questions without departing from the principles announced by this Court in Field v. Clark
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  30. have rested their decisions in the cases referred to in the first of the certified questions. The case of Field v. Clark
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  31. So that, in Field v. Clark
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  32. that, even if the decisions in North Carolina rested upon grounds inconsistent with the principles announced in Field v. Clark
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  33. to issue them, although such authority was not recited in the bonds. This contention rests mainly upon Anderson County v. Beal
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  34. To the same effect is Knox County v. Ninth
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  35. question whether the circuit court should have followed the decisions of the Supreme Court of North Carolina in Bank v. Commissioners
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  36. Commissioners of Wilkes County v. Call
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  37. and Commissioners v. Payne
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  38. and that it had been in effect so decided by the supreme court of the state before the bonds were issued in Hill v. Commissioners
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  39. N.C. 367 (1870), and Belo v. Commissioners
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  40. N.C. 489 (1877). In Hill v. Commissioners
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  41. question whether Wilkes County had power, under that ordinance alone, to issue the bonds here involved. In Belo v. Commissioners
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  42. a question not now decided. In this connection, we must allude to what was said in Commissioners of Wilkes County v. Call
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  43. We have not overlooked the fact that, in Belo v. Commissioners
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  44. This view was again expressed in Commissioners v. Payne
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  45. unexecuted provision of the ordinance of 1868 inconsistent with the state constitution could be executed. Aspinwall v. Commissioners
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  46. Norton v. Brownsville
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  47. Loeb v. Trustees
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  48. circuit court of the United States should have regarded the decisions of the Supreme Court of North Carolina in Bank v. Commissioners
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  49. U.S. Supreme Court Wilkes County v. Coler
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  50. In Bank v. Commissioners
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