Lord v. Bates
Supreme Court of South Carolina
This action, in the original jurisdiction of the Court, is based upon a petition by Samuel Lord, as receiver of the late corporation known as the president, directors and company of the State Bank, praying for a writ of mandamus against Hon. W. T. C. Bates, state'treasurer, requiring him to fund certain State bonds, alleged to be the property of said corporation, which have been lost.
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This action, in the original jurisdiction of the Court, is based upon a petition by Samuel Lord, as receiver of the late corporation known as the president, directors and company of the State Bank, praying for a writ of mandamus against Hon. W. T. C. Bates, state'treasurer, requiring him to fund certain State bonds, alleged to be the property of said corporation, which have been lost. The case was first heard by the Supreme Court of four Justices, on the 18th day of May, 1896, and by them on the same day ordered to be argued before the full Court. Accordingly it was argued on the 30th day of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Gary.
The State Bank was incorporated as a banking institution prior to the late war. In order to prevent confusion, it may be well to state at the outset, that the State Bank was a private banking corporation, and the Bank of the State was a public corporation established for the benefit of the State. Upon the seige of the city of Charleston, in 1863, the assets of the State Bank were removed to the town of Camden, where, in 1865, they were taken from the agent of the bank, by soldiers in the invading army of General Sherman, then passing…
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