Forrest v. City Council
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Townsend, J., Charleston, May, 1902. Action by John Forrest, M. D., against City Council of Charleston and T. Moultrie Mordecai et al., commissioners of the city orphan asylum. From order granting discontinuance, defendants appeal. cite: 60 S. C., 1. cites: 2 Wait’s Prac., 600; 1 Bailey, 262; 1 Speer, 307.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Jones.
The plaintiff, a taxpayer and resident in Charleston, brought this action 'to enjoin the city council of Charleston from appropriating the sum of $5,000 for the support of the inmates of the city orphan asylum and also to restrain the commissioners of said orphan asylum from contracting any further debts for the support of the said orphan asylum' upon the faith of such appropriation, basing his right to such injunction upon the ground that the city orphan asylum is a sectarian institute, under the control of the Roman Catholic Church,…
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