Gibbes v. Greenville & Columbia Railroad
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before. Fraser, J., Richland, December, 1881. Petition by E. B. Benson & Co. in re Gibbes v. Greenville and Columbia Railroad Company, and the State, ex relatione the Attorney-General, v. same. The petition was based upon a contract made by letter, and which is fully stated in the opinion.
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Before. Fraser, J., Richland, December, 1881. Petition by E. B. Benson & Co. in re Gibbes v. Greenville and Columbia Railroad Company, and the State, ex relatione the Attorney-General, v. same. The petition was based upon a contract made by letter, and which is fully stated in the opinion. The Circuit' decree, after a statement of the facts repeated in the opinion, was as follows : Under orders, in such cases, receivers are sometimes allowed to do certain specific acts; but, in .this case, there is no limit, except, as I construe the order, that which is furnished by a wise discretion,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mu. Chief Justice Simpson.
The appellants, Benson A Co., filed a petition in the court below in re the above stated causes, praying payment of a certain claim for $668 as rebato freight on six hundred aud sixty-eight bales of cotton shipped over the Greenville and Columbia railroad by the petitioners, from Anderson Court House, during the cotton season of 1877 — 78. This claim was founded upon an alleged contract between the petitioners and the president and directors of said railroad company acting as receivers under the order of June 18th, 1872, known…
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