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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt:...suit was not in good faith, and served a copy thereof upon the said road commissioners of Yancey County in that cause. That upon the complaint by the commissioners of Yancey County being served upon both parties to said proceedings, an agreement was made that notice should be given to the said county commissioners or their attorneys to the end that they might ask to intervene in said cause; that no hearing was ever requested in the original cause, but the said road commissioners proceeded, while said injunction was still pending, to issue said bonds and to make said attempted sale thereof, and when the said bonds were issued and said attempted sale made, the said original suit was still pending in Yancey County; said injunction had not been dissolved and the purchasers of said bonds took the same with full notice of the pendency of said proceedings and of the injunction therein. That said attempted sale was made in secrecy and in violation of said injunction, and these parties had no opportunity to intervene in said cause, as no hearing was had and the said plaintiffs in said cause came into court while the criminal docket was being tried on the first day of the term and without notice to the public, took non-suit. That these plaintiffs are informed and believe and allege that an attempted sale of said bonds was made in secrecy, and with the view of having the same consummated without the knowledge on the part of the plaintiffs in this cause, as all parties knew that the legality of said issue was to be contested. The whole proceedings in said cause and the entire record is here referred to and asked to be taken as a part of this allegation, together with the complaint, prepared on behalf of the commissioners of Yancey County and others. Wherefore, plaintif...