Case Name: Luke Fraser and others vs. Commissioners of Roads for Christ Church Parish
Court: South Carolina Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1832-03
Citations: 3 Rich. 326
Docket Number: 
Parties: Luke Fraser and others vs. Commissioners of Roads for Christ Church Parish.
Judges: O’Neall, J. concurred.
Reporter: South Carolina Law Reports
Volume: 37
Pages: 326–327

Head Matter:
Luke Fraser and others vs. Commissioners of Roads for Christ Church Parish.
The inhabitants of Sullivan’s Island are not liable to work on tbe high roads on the mainland in Christ Church Parish.
Before Bat, J. at Chambers, Charleston, May, 1831.
This was an application for a writ of prohibition to restrain the defendants from collecting certain fines imposed on the Relators, inhabitants of Sullivan’s Island, for not working on the high roads on the main-land in Christ Church Parish. His Honor ordered the writ to issue, and the defendants appealed.
Grimke, for the motion.
Theodore Hunt, contra.

Opinion:
Curia, per
Johnson, J.
By referring to the Act of 1708, P. L. 13, it will be seen that Sullivan's Island is included within the geographical boundary of Christ Church Parish. We are, however, of opinion with our Brother Bay, that the inhabitants of the Island are not bound to work on the public roads on the main-land. The Act of 1819, confers on the intendant and wardens of Moul-trieville, all the powers of the commissioners of the high roads, and imposes on them the duty of repairing and keeping up the streets, roads and highways of Sullivan's Island. The grant of these powers necessarily supersedes the jurisdiction of the commissioners of the roads for Christ Church Parish over the territory of the Island,because they are entirely incompatible ; and to enable the intendant and wardens to discharge the duties imposed on them, they are entitled exclusively to the service and labor of the inhabitants. This is a distribution of a public burthen prescribed by law — apparently equal in itself, and sanctioned by an usage contemporaneous with the first settlement of the Island.
Motion dismissed.
O'Neall, J. concurred.
.) 6 Stat. 130: see also 8 Stat. 290.