Butler v. Ellerbe
Supreme Court of South Carolina
This was an original application to this court for injunction, M. C. Butler being the petitioner, and W. H. Ellerbe, comptroller general, and W. T. C. Bates, State treasurer, being the respondents.
1Dissent
Mr. Ohiee Justice MoIver,
dissenting. This is an action, instituted in the original jurisdiction of this court, for an injunction restraining the defendants, as fiscal officers of the State government, from applying the public funds in the State treasury to the payment of certain appropriations, which, it is claimed, have been illegally made by the legislature. The particular appropriations claimed to be illegal are those made in the appropriation act of 23d December, 1893, for the pay of supervisors of registration, and for the pay of commissioners, managers, and messengers of elections, for…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- Edmonds v. BanburySupreme Court of Iowa · 1869
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