Beacham v. City of Greenville
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Gary, J., Greenville, April, 1916. Action by W. C. Beacham against the City of Greenville. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals. The following is the decree of the Court below: This case comes before me for a hearing upon the complaint and answer. The facts are not disputed.
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Before Gary, J., Greenville, April, 1916. Action by W. C. Beacham against the City of Greenville. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals. The following is the decree of the Court below: This case comes before me for a hearing upon the complaint and answer. The facts are not disputed. The city authorities of Greenville desiring to issue bonds in the sum of $40,000 for the purpose of acquiring, improving, and equipping a city hospital, submitted to the qualified voters of said city the question as to whether said bonds should be issued for said purpose. The result of said election was…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice Gary.
This is an action for injunction to restrain the city of Greenville from issuing bonds, to the amount of $40,000, for the mity hospital, which were voted at an election ordered for the purpose of deciding that question.
The appellant’s attorneys in their argument state that it is impossible for them to differentiate this case from that of Seegers v. Gibbes, 72 S. C. 532, 52 S. E. 586, and they freely admit that if the Court adheres to the ruling therein announced, the city has the right to exclude from the calculations the two…
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