Smith v. Jennings
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Petition for injunction in the original jurisdiction of this Court by H. A. M. Smith, receiver of the president, directors and company of the State Bank, against R. H. Jennings, State treasurer. cite: The resolution impairs the obligation of contract: 3 Ency., 1 ed., 748; 15 Ency., 2 ed., 1033, 1040, 1047-8, 1050; Cool. Con. Lim., 6 ed., 329-30; 4 S. C., 430; 12 S. C., 200; 4 Pet., 514; 96 U. S., 432; 102 U. S., 672; 12 Rich.
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Petition for injunction in the original jurisdiction of this Court by H. A. M. Smith, receiver of the president, directors and company of the State Bank, against R. H. Jennings, State treasurer. cite: The resolution impairs the obligation of contract: 3 Ency., 1 ed., 748; 15 Ency., 2 ed., 1033, 1040, 1047-8, 1050; Cool. Con. Lim., 6 ed., 329-30; 4 S. C., 430; 12 S. C., 200; 4 Pet., 514; 96 U. S., 432; 102 U. S., 672; 12 Rich. Eq., 498; 15 How., 304; 1 S. C., 63; 15 How., 304; 15 Rich. R., 84; 21 S. C., 414; 2 Pet., 627; 4 Wheat., 122; 6 Plow., 301; 96 U. S-, 595; 135 U. S., 662; 12 Wheat.,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Jones.
This is an application in the original jurisdiction of this Court for an order restraining the State treasurer from acting pursuant to a joint resolution of the General Assembly, which requires the State treasurer “to write off of the books in his office and no longer carry o,n the books as a debt of the State” certain bonds entered on the books of the State treasurer as “Old bonds not fundable (act of 1896) Blue Ridge Railroad bonds, $37,000.” The petitioner attacks the constitutionality of said joint resolution upon several grounds,…
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