Reedy River Power Co. v. City of Laurens
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before PeuriFoy, J., Laurens, Spring term, 1918. Statement: This was an action on a contract to furnish electric power, alleged to have been made in 1908 between plaintiff and the city council of Laurens. The defendants denied the right of plaintiffs to recover and set up sundry counterclaims. The plaintiff obtained a verdict for the sum of $3,143.58, and from judgment thereon defendants appeal.
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Before PeuriFoy, J., Laurens, Spring term, 1918. Statement: This was an action on a contract to furnish electric power, alleged to have been made in 1908 between plaintiff and the city council of Laurens. The defendants denied the right of plaintiffs to recover and set up sundry counterclaims. The plaintiff obtained a verdict for the sum of $3,143.58, and from judgment thereon defendants appeal. Upon the call of the case in the Supreme Court, a motion to dismiss the appeal upon the ground that the plaintiff had been paid its judgment and the appeal was nugatory was made.
1Opinion of the Court
The following per curiam order was made by the Court:
'It- appearing that the litigation between-the plaintiff-respondent and defendant-appellant', is at an end, and that the judgment in favor of the plaintiff against the city of Laurens has been paid; there is nothing in the case for the Court to consider. As to whether - or not the city council has power, to contract for a longer term than their term of office, and deprive those who should succeed them of all control over the matter, is not now properly before us, and can only be determined if a proper case should arrive in the future, and…
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