Southern Ry. Co. v. City of Orangeburg

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This action was brought by the City of Orangeburg against Southern Railway Company for the foreclosure of a paving assessment lien. The District Judge rendered a judgment for the plaintiff for the amount of the assessment, $6,925.67, with simple interest at 6% from January 15, 1927, 55 F.Supp. 167 and 171. The Railway Company appealed from the entire judgment and the city appealed from so much thereof as allows simple interest only.

The case was first instituted in the Court of Common Pleas for Orangeburg County, South Carolina, and later removed to the District Court. A…