Threadgill v. Bd. Of Comm'rs
Decision Date | 16 April 1888 |
Citation | 99 N.C. 352,6 S.E. 189 |
Court | North Carolina Supreme Court |
Parties | Threadgill et al. v. Board of Commissioners. |
Nuisance—Duty of County to Prevent—Code N. C. § 707.
Under Code N. C. | 707, subsec. 5, providing that" the board of commissioners is authorized to make such orders respecting the corporate property of the county as may be deemed expedient, " a complaint in an action against the board as a corporation, to abate an offensive privy on such property as a nuisance, should allege that the board had neglected to raise and appropriate money to employ agents to prevent the nuisance.
Appeal from superior court, Anson county; Walter Clark, Judge. A. Lockhart, for appellant.
W. L. Parsons, for appellee.
The plaintiffs on the 1st day of October, 1883, instituted the present action against the board of county commissioners of Anson county, torecover damages for the erection and maintenance of an alleged nuisance on the court-house square, and to have the same abated, and state their cause of action in the complaint thus: The plaintiffs, complaining of the defendants, allege: ...
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