· 2/5/1892
Winslow v. . Collins
Citations
- 14 S.E. 512
- 110 N.C. 119
How courts have described this case
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- “[T]he vital conditions and safeguards surrounding the tax voted at the time of the election thereon became a part of the very election itself.”
- laws in force and effect on election date become part of voted proposition and part of contract with voters
- laws in force and effect on election date become part of voted proposition and part of contract with voters
- laws in force and effect on election date become part of contract with voters
- laws in force and effect on election date become part of contract with voters
- also acknowledging that “where the Constitution authorizes the levy of a special tax by a vote of the taxpaying voters of a municipality ... such tax is not levied by the municipality ... but by the voters to whom has been delegated the taxing power”
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