Case Name: KUHN v. ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING AND POWER CO.
Court: Supreme Court of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1912-09-21
Citations: 92 S.C. 488
Docket Number: 8323
Parties: KUHN v. ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING AND POWER CO.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Carolina Reports
Volume: 92
Pages: 488–489

Head Matter:
8323
KUHN v. ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING AND POWER CO.
Injuítction — Charters-—Secretary op State. — In the absence of a showing that pending an appeal from an order restraining the secretary of ’ state from granting amendments to certain charters, that snch order will result in irreparable injury or miscarriage of justice, a supersedeas order should not be granted.
Petition by respondents before Mr. Justice Woods at chambers in James S. Kuhn and William S. Kuhn against Electric Manufacturing añd Power Co., Spartanburg Railway, Gas and- Electric Co.i and R. M. McCown, as Secretary of State, of whom the plaintiffs are appellants.
Messrs. Johnson, Nash & Daniel, for petitioners.
Messrs. Caldwell, Manlich & Reed, Sanders & DePass, Lyles & Lyles, contra.
September 21, 1912.

Opinion:
Mr. Justice Woods.
On the 30th day of August, 1912, Hon. T. S. Sease, Circuit Judge, made an order'enjoining the defendants "from taking any action looking to the amendment of the charter of either of the defendant corporations in the particulars shown by the resolutions and petitions of each defendant filed with the Secretary of State on the 23d of August and set forth in the record at this hearing." Pending their appeal from this order, the defendants have presented their petition to me, after due notice to the plaintiffs, asking for an order superseding the order of injunction and for a writ of mandamus requiring the secretary of state to sign and issue certificates o.f the proposed amendments to the charter of the corporation.
I express no opinion whatever as to the merits of the cause, which involves difficult questions of law, but refuse to supersede the order of injunction on the ground that petitioners have not clearly shown that, pending the appeal, it will result in irreparable injury or the miscarriage of justice. Andrews v. Sumter C. & R. E. Co., 87 S. C. 301.
The petition for mandamus requiring the Secretary of State to issue certificates of amendments cannot be granted while the injunction stands.
It is therefore ordered that the petition be dismissed.