Trustees of the Columbia Academy v. Board of Trustees

Brailsford, Justice:

In this action by the Trustees of the Academy of Columbia against the School Board of Richland County School District No. 1 for judgment declaring Act No. 585 of the Acts of 1971 to be unconstitutional, the relief sought was granted in part and denied in part. Both parties have appealed.

We begin our, hopefully, brief recitation of the facts with the year 1795, when a corporate charter was granted by the General Assembly to five citizens of the recently established Town of Columbia as “The Trustees of the Academy of Columbia,” for the “purpose of encouraging and promoting…