Legal Opinion

Cleveland v. City Council of Spartanburg

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Decided January 3, 1899PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Petition in the original jurisdiction of this Court by Henry Cleveland v. Arch. B. Calvert and others, constituting the city council of Spartanburg, to enjoin respondents from issuing $50,000 of municipal bonds.

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 injunction to restrain the *84city council of Spartanburg from issuing $50,000 of bonds for sewerage purposes. The city council claim authority to issue said bonds under a special Act for that purpose, approved December 24th, 1890, 20 Stat., 976, entitled “An act to authorize the city council of Spartanburg to ordain the necessary ordinances for the establishment, construction and maintenance of a system of sewerage in the city of Spartanburg and issue bonds for…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Dixon County v. FieldSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
  2. Sutliff v. Lake County CommissionersSupreme Court of the United States · 1893

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Town of Summerville v. City of North CharlestonSupreme Court of South Carolina · 2008
  2. State ex rel. Arthurs v. Board of County CommissionersMontana Supreme Court · 1911
  3. State ex rel. City of Carthage v. GordonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1909
  4. Mayberry v. GaddisSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1923
  5. City of Rome v. Breed, Elliot & HarrisonCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1918

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