Case Name: STATE EX REL. C. C. & C. R. R. CO. v. HARPER
Court: Supreme Court of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1889-04-16
Citations: 30 S.C. 586
Docket Number: 
Parties: STATE EX REL. C. C. & C. R. R. CO. v. HARPER.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Carolina Reports
Volume: 30
Pages: 586–587

Head Matter:
STATE EX REL. C. C. & C. R. R. CO. v. HARPER.
This was a proceeding for mandamus against the county commissioners of Lancaster County, in every particular the same as in the next case ante against the chairman and clerk of the board of county commissioners of York County, except that the return raised the additional point that the bonds in question had never been “issued” within the meaning of the act of December 22, 1888.
Messrs. James F. Hart, Sheppard Bros., R. W. Shand, Henderson Bros., and B. H. Allison, for relators.
Messrs. Jones <f- Williams, contra.
April 16, 1889.

Opinion:
The opinion of the court was delivered
Per Curiam.
The application for mandamus in this case was heard upon facts substantially the same as those in the recent case of State of South Carolina ex relatione The Charleston, Cincinnati & Chicago R. R. Co., et al., v. Robert Whitesides, chairman, et al.; and the questions of law involved are the same. Upon the authority of that case, therefore, the petition herein is dismissed, upon other grounds, however, than the alleged uneonstitutionality of the act of 1888, entitled -'An act to provide for the. payment of township bonds issued in aid of railroads in this State," which we hold constitutional. See State ex rel. C. C. & C. R. R. Co. v. Whitesides, ante, 579, and State ex rel. Dickinson v. Neely, next case post.