Gentry v. Taylor

This is a taxpayer’s suit, brought by permission in the original jurisdiction of the Court, to enjoin the county board of Spartanburg County from issuing and selling county bonds pursuant to the terms of an act passed by the General Assembly at its 1938 session (40 Stat. at Large, 2790).

The facts are not in dispute. The city of Spartanburg owns an airport located just without its corporate limits. The act authorizes the county board, subject to the approval thereof in advance by a majority of the qualified electors of the county, at an election to be held to determine such matter, to issue…