Bellamy v. Johnson

Stukes, Chief Justice.

-This is an appeal from a judgment which upheld proceedings for the annexation of adjoining' territory to the munici pality of Ocean Drive Beach in Horry County. Sec. 47-11 et seq., Code of 1952. The former incorporated area consists of about one and one-half square miles while the area proposed to be annexed is about three and one-half square miles, much of it farm land and much undeveloped. The required election resulted favorably in both the municipality and in the area proposed to be annexed.

There are many questions on appeal, one being the contention that the…