Shillito v. City of Spartanburg

Fishburne, Justice.

When presiding in the Seventh Judicial Circuit at Spar-tanburg, South Carolina, Hon. J. Woodrow Lewis heard upon the pleadings the case of Shillito v. Spartanburg et al., a taxpayer’s action, involving the constitutionality of an Act passed by the General Assembly, No. 841, Act Jan. 23, 1946, 44 Stat. at Large, page 2494, providing for an annual tax levy in the City of Spartanburg for the benefit of the Spartanburg City Firemen’s Pension Fund. He took the matter under advisement, adjourned the court sine die, left the circuit and returned to his home at Darlington, in the…