State ex rel. C. C. & C. Railroad v. Whitesides
Supreme Court of South Carolina
This was a petition to this court by the Charleston, Cincinnati & Chicago Railroad Company, The Massachusetts & Southern Construction Company, and The Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company for a writ of mandamus to compel the chairman and the clerk of the board of county commissioners of York County to affix their signatures to a certificate by the chief engineer of said railroad company that said railroad had been completed through Broad River Township in York County.
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This was a petition to this court by the Charleston, Cincinnati & Chicago Railroad Company, The Massachusetts & Southern Construction Company, and The Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company for a writ of mandamus to compel the chairman and the clerk of the board of county commissioners of York County to affix their signatures to a certificate by the chief engineer of said railroad company that said railroad had been completed through Broad River Township in York County. The opinion sufficiently states the case, but in connection herewith see the succeeding case of State ex rel. Dickinson v.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court ivas delivered by
Mr. Chiee Justice Simpson.
The inhabitants of Broad River Township in York County, under the provisions of the amended charter of the Georgetown & North Carolina Narrow-Gauge Railroad Company — 1883—which company afterwards became the Charleston, Cincinnati & Chicago Railroad Company, voted a subscription of $21,000 to said road, payable in 7 per cent, coupon bonds, upon the authority of which the county commissioners of said county executed the necessary bonds for the payment of said subscription.
These bonds, by an arrangement between the parties,…
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