Moore v. Barry

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mr. Justice McGowan.

In December, 1880, S. M. Snoddy, W. H. Bush, L. L. Wingo, J. W. Bush, H. W. Ballinger, W. J. Bright, and Joseph L. Howell, defendants, petitioned the then board of county commissioners for Spartanburg County, to take the necessary steps to have the swamp lands on Jordan’s Creek drained under section 1183 of the General Statutes, alleging in said petition that they constituted a majority of the land owners on said stream, and that the land sought to be drained was unfit for cultivation. The then county commissioners proceeded under…