Mason v. Williams

Circuit Judge R. D. Ride, Acting Associate Justice,

delivered the unanimous opinion of the Court:

This is the second time this case has been before this Court, and the present appeal is by the plaintiff from the order for final judgment of the Court of Common Pleas for Spartanburg County in favor of the defendants, dated October 16, 1943, handed down by Honorable G. Dewey Oxner, then Judge of the Thirteenth Circuit.

This is a taxpayer’s action for the benefit of the City of Spartanburg and was instituted on February 14, 1938, against T. Williams, as city clerk and treasurer, and Fidelity &…