Jackson v. City of Columbia

Mr. Acting Associate Justice Eugene S. Blease

(concurring) :

While concurring in the opinion of Mr. Justice Bonham, I wish to make a few observations.

With the greatest respect, of course, for that highly distinguished jurist, Mr. Chief Justice Mclver, I never have been quite satisfied with the construction placed by him upon the “enabling statute,” relating to the liability of municipal corporations, in the case of Dunn v. Town of Barnwell, 43 S. C., 398, 21 S. E., 315, 49 Am. St. Rep., 843, decided in 1895. Therein he construed the Act of 1892 (21 St. at Large, p. 91), incorporated in the…