Case Name: MELCHERS v. BATES
Court: Supreme Court of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1894-10-11
Citations: 42 S.C. 271
Docket Number: 
Parties: MELCHERS v. BATES.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Carolina Reports
Volume: 42
Pages: 271–271

Head Matter:
MELCHERS v. BATES.
1. Case Criticised — Dispensary Act. — The decision of this court in State ex rel. George v. Aiken, ante, 222, followed; and the court refused to grant an injunction to restrain the State Treasurer and the State Commissioner under the Dispensary Act from paying out any moneys, or doing any other acts under that statute.
This was an application to this court in its original jurisdiction by Theodore Melchers and F.W. Jessen, citizens and taxpayers of the State, for a writ of injunction to restrain W. T. C. Bates, State Treasurer, from paying out moneys for expenses of the State Dispensary, and D. H. Traxler, State Commissioner, from purchasing and disposing of liquors. This case was heard together with the next case ante.
Messrs. J. P. K. Bryan and Mitchell & Smith, for petitioners.
The Attorney General, contra.
October 11, 1894.

Opinion:
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Gary.
This is an application to this court, in its original jurisdiction, for an injunction to restrain the defendants, as State officers, from enforcing the provisions of the act of 1893, known as the Dispensary Act, on the ground that it is unconstitutional. This case was heard in connection with that of the State ex relatione J. V. George and G. T. Holley, appellants, v. the City Council of the City of Aiken, respondent, ante, and is ruled by the decision in that case, which has just been filed.
It is, therefore, the judgment of this court, that the petition be dismissed.