Segars v. Parrott
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Proceeding in original jurisdiction for injunction by the following petition: The State of South Carolina, in the Supreme Court. April term, 1898. J. R. Segars, jr., J. J. Fields, S. T. Gardner, R. M. Jones, B. R. Gatlin, and R. M. Cooper, petitioners, against J. L. Parrott, John C. Shaw, J. P. Kilgo, E. E. Tiller, A. E. Skinner, A. M. Lee, R. E. Cams, W. W. Heron, J. W. Gardner, J. E. McCutchen, S. F. Moore, and Wm. Kelley, as commissioners of Lee County, respondents.
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Proceeding in original jurisdiction for injunction by the following petition: The State of South Carolina, in the Supreme Court. April term, 1898. J. R. Segars, jr., J. J. Fields, S. T. Gardner, R. M. Jones, B. R. Gatlin, and R. M. Cooper, petitioners, against J. L. Parrott, John C. Shaw, J. P. Kilgo, E. E. Tiller, A. E. Skinner, A. M. Lee, R. E. Cams, W. W. Heron, J. W. Gardner, J. E. McCutchen, S. F. Moore, and Wm. Kelley, as commissioners of Lee County, respondents. To the Honorable Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of South Carolina: The plaintiffs above named, who…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court en banc
was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice McIver.
This was a proceeding instituted in the Supreme Court in the exercise of its original jurisdiction, mainly for the purpose of testing the legality of the establishment of Lee County, formed from certain portions of territory cut off from the counties of Sumter, Kershaw, and Darlington. In the petition it is alleged, amongst other things, that while the result of the election, ordered by the governor, in those portions of Sumter and Kershaw counties cut off from said counties, and embraced-within the area of the said new…
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