Ballentine v. City of Columbia

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Cothran.

This is an action to recover from the City of Columbia the sum of $602.85, with interest from April 20, 1923, representing the amount of an assessment laid upon the abutting property of the plaintiff for street and sidewalk paving, paid by the plaintiff under protest, and alleged by him to have been illegally laid.

This is a second appeal. The former is reported in 129 S. C., 410; 124 S. E., 643. In that appeal both parties complained of an order of Hon. J. W. DeVore, Circuit Judge, sustaining certain grounds of demurrer interposed…