Evans v. Tillman
Supreme Court of South Carolina
This was a petition by John Gary Evans, a taxpayer, presented to this court, in its original jurisdiction, to enjoin B. R. Tillman, governor, and- W. T. C. Bates, State treasurer, to carry out a contract made by them with the Baltimore Trust and Guarantee Company. The terms of this contract, in all of its material particulars, are stated in the dissenting opinion of the Chief Justice.
1Opinion of the Court
The following order was filed:
This is an application addressed to the court in the exercise of its original jurisdiction, for an injunction to restrain the defendants from entering into a contract for the sale of the 41 per cent, bonds of this State (a copy of which contract is appended to the proceedings in this case), upon the ground that such a proposed contract is not authorized by the terms of “au act to provide for the redemption of that part of the State debt known as the brown consol bonds and stock by issue of other bonds and stock,” approved 22d day of December, A. D. 1892.
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