State ex rel. Columbia Bridge Co. v. City of Columbia
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Aldrich, J., Richland, July, 1886. The appeal in this case was from the following order: This is an application for a writ of prohibition, to prevent the respondent from collecting a tax on the bridge of the petitioner. On March 22, 1786, the legislature passed “an act to appoint commissioners to purchase land for the purpose of building a town, and for removing the seat of government thereto.”
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Before Aldrich, J., Richland, July, 1886. The appeal in this case was from the following order: This is an application for a writ of prohibition, to prevent the respondent from collecting a tax on the bridge of the petitioner. On March 22, 1786, the legislature passed “an act to appoint commissioners to purchase land for the purpose of building a town, and for removing the seat of government thereto.” The commissioners were “authorized and required to lay off a tract of land near Friday’s Ferry, on the Congaree River, including the plain of the hill whereon Thomas and James Taylor, Esqs., now…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mu. Justice McIver.
This was an application for a prohibition to restrain the collection of a tax imposed by the authorities of the city of Columbia, upon the bridge across the Oongaree at Columbia, owned by the relator. The Circuit Judge held that no part of said bridge was within the corporate limits of the city of Columbia, and hence that there was no authority for the imposition of the tax complained of. He therefore granted an order that the writ of prohibition should issue, prohibiting the enforcement of the execution which had been issued and…
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