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Sawyer v. Pasquotank County

Supreme Court of North Carolina
Sep 1, 1917
174 N.C. 786 (N.C. 1917)

Summary

In Allen v. Lopinsky, 81 W. Va. 13, 94 S.E. 369, an action against a private person for having caused the arrest and imprisonment of the plaintiff without a warrant for a misdemeanor, the defendant requested an officer to make the arrest and suggested that he obtain a warrant for that purpose but the officer having expressed his opinion that a warrant was unnecessary made the requested arrest without assistance or participation by the defendant.

Summary of this case from Winters v. Campbell

Opinion

(Filed 12 September, 1917.)

1. Injunction — Dissolution — Damages — Judgment — Contingencies.

Upon dissolution of a restraining order, liability of plaintiff and his sureties on the injunction bond cannot be determined in advance of any loss or damage proven or sustained, and an adjudication thereof in certain contingencies is reversible error.

2. Appeal and Error — Trials — Issues.

On this appeal it is held that the issue submitted covers every phase of the controversy, and that it was answered by the jury under a correct charge of the court upon a trial without error.

ACTION to restrain the levy and collection of a tax in a special school-tax district in PASQUOTANK County, upon the ground that a majority of the votes cast at the election was not in favor of the proposition.

Ehringhaus Small and Aydlett Simpson for plaintiffs.

Ward Thompson for defendants.


A restraining order was issued, and at the trial a verdict was returned by the jury in favor of the defendants.

Judgment was rendered upon the verdict, dissolving the restraining order and directing the collection of the tax, and also adjudging the liability of the plaintiffs and their surety on the injunction bond in certain contingencies.

The plaintiffs excepted and appealed.


We have considered the exceptions of the plaintiffs to the refusal to submit certain issues, and to the charge, and find them without merit. The issue submitted covers every phase of the controversy, and the charge is free from objection.

The exception to the judgment must be sustained, as the liability of the plaintiffs and their surety on the injunction bond cannot be determined in advance of any loss or damage, proven or sustained. The defendant will be taxed with the costs of this Court.

Modified and affirmed.

(787)


Summaries of

Sawyer v. Pasquotank County

Supreme Court of North Carolina
Sep 1, 1917
174 N.C. 786 (N.C. 1917)

In Allen v. Lopinsky, 81 W. Va. 13, 94 S.E. 369, an action against a private person for having caused the arrest and imprisonment of the plaintiff without a warrant for a misdemeanor, the defendant requested an officer to make the arrest and suggested that he obtain a warrant for that purpose but the officer having expressed his opinion that a warrant was unnecessary made the requested arrest without assistance or participation by the defendant.

Summary of this case from Winters v. Campbell
Case details for

Sawyer v. Pasquotank County

Case Details

Full title:L. R. SAWYER ET AL. v. PASQUOTANK COUNTY

Court:Supreme Court of North Carolina

Date published: Sep 1, 1917

Citations

174 N.C. 786 (N.C. 1917)
94 S.E. 369

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