State v. Hammond
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Indictment against W. Q. Hammond for failure to clean out stream after notice. From Circuit order reversing judgment of magistrate, plaintiff appeals. (For citations see same case ante.) (For citations see same case ante.)
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice Pope.
Proceedings were had in a magistrate’s court in Anderson County, in this State, by which the defendant was charged and tried for a misdemeanor, in that the defendant had violated sections 1273 and 1274 of the Revised Statutes of the year 1893, which required that the defendant as a land owner should remove during the month of May, 1901, from the Little Beaver Dam Creek, running through his 'land, all trash, trees, rafts and timber, which duty the defendant neglected to perform.
When the trial began, the defendant objected thereto;…
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