Case Name: JAMES I MOORE and others v. RICHARD D. JONES and others
Court: Supreme Court of North Carolina
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1877-01
Citations: 76 N.C. 189
Docket Number: 
Parties: JAMES I MOORE and others v. RICHARD D. JONES and others.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 76
Pages: 189–190

Head Matter:
JAMES I MOORE and others v. RICHARD D. JONES and others.
Restraining order -- Bond.
Upon the granting of an order restraining certain persons from exercising the duties of certain county offices to which they had been declared elected by the Board of County, Commissioners; Meld, not to be error to require from the plaintiffs a bond for costs, damages, &c.
Appeal from an Order made at Chambers in Eranklinton on the 14th day of December, 1876, by Watts, J.
Upon granting the restraining order as stated in the preceding case Ilis Honor also required the plaintiffs to execute a bond for costs, damages, &e. to the defendants, from •which the plaintiffs appealed.
Messrs. Merrimon, Fuller § Ashe and T B. Venable, for plaintiffs.
Messrs. L. G. Edwards and J. B. Batchelor, for defendants.

Opinion:
Pearson, C. J.
Inasmuch as the plaintiffs were advised to include Crews and the other persons, who held the certificate of election made by the " Board of Commissioners" in the summons, and to ask for a restraining order and injunction, they have no ground to complain of the order requiring them to give bond, which His Honor, after he found that the proceeding would be protracted for some time, thought v it to be his duty to make.
No error. •
Per Curiam. - Judgment affirmed.