Court Opinion

ID: 9841764
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-22 20:05:15.089853+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:04:41.958434
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Me. Justige Beadley,
after stating the case as above, delivered the opinion of the court.
We think it perfectly clear that the suit against the auditor in this case was virtually a suit against the State of North Carolina. In this regard it comes within the principle of the cases of Louisiana v. Jumel, 107 U. S. 711; Cunningham v. Macon & Brunswick Railroad Co., 109 U. S. 446; Hagood v. Southern, 117 U. S. 52; and In re Ayers, 123 U. S. 443. We do not think it necessary to consider that question anew. ■
The other point, the suability of the State, is settled by the decision just rendered in Hans v. The State of Louisiana, ante, 1.
To the question on which the judges of the Circuit Court were opposed in opinion, our answer is in the negative, namely, that the suit could not be maintained' in the Circuit Court against the State of North Carolina by the plaintiff, a citizen thereof.
The decree of the Circuit Court is
Reversed and the cause rema/nded with instructions to dis- " miss 'the Mil of corrvplaAnt.