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…
1Dissent
Judge O. W. Buchanan,
8 dissenting. The Constitutional Convention of 1895, in article VII., provided for the formation of new counties, empowering the governor on the petition of one-third of the qualified electors within the area of each section of an old county, proposed to be cut off, to form a new county, setting forth the boundaries and showing compliance with the requirements of the article, taxable property, requisite population, that election had not therefor been held within four years last past, &c., to order an election in which the qualified electors of the proposed area shall vote…
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