State ex rel. Port Royal Mining Co. v. Hagood
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Norton, J., Charleston, July, 1888. This was a petition for mandamus instituted by the Port Royal Mining Company against Johnson Hagood and the other members of the Board of Agriculture, in June, 1888. The venue was laid in Barnwell County, where the first named respondent resided, but was heard at chambers before Judge Norton in Charleston, where he was then holding court, on the affidavit of relator’s attorney that the judge of the Second Circuit was out of his…
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Before Norton, J., Charleston, July, 1888. This was a petition for mandamus instituted by the Port Royal Mining Company against Johnson Hagood and the other members of the Board of Agriculture, in June, 1888. The venue was laid in Barnwell County, where the first named respondent resided, but was heard at chambers before Judge Norton in Charleston, where he was then holding court, on the affidavit of relator’s attorney that the judge of the Second Circuit was out of his Circuit, and that the judge then presiding therein had declared himself disqualified. The Port Royal Mining Company was…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Justice McGowan.
This was an application to Judge Norton for a writ of mandamus against the respondents, requiring them to issue to the relator a license to mine phosphate rock in certain navigable streams of the State, under the following circumstances : The relator is a corporation chartered in this State for “the purpose of mining, dredging, preparing, removing, procuring phosphate rocks and phosphatic deposits, and cleaning, drying, crushing, grinding, and generally dealing in the same in the State of South Carolina,” &c. But having no right to…
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