Grady v. City of Greenville

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Marion.

'In the year 1891, the Ladies’ Memorial Association of Greenville County presented to the mayor and aldermen of the City of Greenville a petition, showing, in substance, “that, after years of patient toil,” their “effort to erect a suitable monument to the Confederate dead of Greenville County” was “about to be crowned with success”; that, in the opinion of petitioner, the most appropriate place for the location of the monument was a designated point on Main Street in said city, and that they desired to place the monument there, “in…