State v. Price
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Indictment against Hugh P. Price. The order appealed from was as follows: This case, in which the motion now before me has been made, is an indictment for a nuisance by damming up a stream of water forming a pond, and thereby causing sickness, At the term of the court held in April, 1890, there was a verdict of guilty rendered by consent of the defendant.
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Indictment against Hugh P. Price. The order appealed from was as follows: This case, in which the motion now before me has been made, is an indictment for a nuisance by damming up a stream of water forming a pond, and thereby causing sickness, At the term of the court held in April, 1890, there was a verdict of guilty rendered by consent of the defendant. His honor, Judge Wither-spoon, then presiding, imposed as the sentence of the court a fine of one dollar, and then proceeded by consent, as appears by the judgment order, to order the abatement of the nuisance. As the removal of the nuisance…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice McIver.
This was an indictment charging the defendant with erecting and maintaining a common nuisance by damming a stream of water, forming a pond and causing sickness in the neighborhood of said pond, which came on for trial before his honor, Judge Witherspoon, and a jury at the April term, 1890, of the Court of Sessions for Marion County. While the trial ivas in progress, and after the witnesses for the prosecution had been examined and the testimony for the defence had been commenced, a compromise was agreed upon, whereby a verdict…
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