Legal Opinion

State ex rel. Gruber v. Knight

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Decided April 22, 1889PublishedCited by 4 opinions

This was an application to this court in its original jurisdiction for a writ of mandamus. The opinion states the ease.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mr. Justice McGowan.

This was a petition in the original jurisdiction of this court, filed January 7, 1889, for a writ of mandamus, requiring J. H. Knight, J. C. Strickland, and R. T. King, the county commissioners of Colleton County, to draw their order on the county treasurer of the county, in payment of two accounts claimed to be due the relator, W. B. Gruber, for services alleged to have been rendered by him as clerk of the board of county commissioners in the years 1884 and 1885— one for “balance due as clerk board county commissioners, fiscal year…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Van Hook v. WhitlockNew York Supreme Court · 1841

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Milster v. City of SpartanburgSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1903
  2. Washington ex rel. City of Seattle v. Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co.District Court, W.D. Washington · 1924
  3. United States ex rel. Arant v. LaneCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1918
  4. State Ex Rel. Guenther v. Charleston Light & Water Co.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1904

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