City of Anderson v. East

Elliott, C. J. —

The defendants severed in their defences in the trial court and here separately assign errors. Consequently there are two branches of the case, involving essentially different questions: one in which the rights of the city of Anderson are involved, and another which involves the rights of the appellant Doxey. It is proper, as well as convenient, to first consider and dispose of that branch of the case in which the rights of the municipal corporation are involved.

The judgment against the city of Anderson rests entirely upon the second paragraph of the complaint, and, if that is…