Goodale v. Sowell
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Gary, J., Chesterfield, April, 1901. Action by Alexander Goodale et al. against Ervin Sowell et al. The Circuit decree is as follows: “This is an action on the equity side of the Court, for an injunction, brought by the plaintiffs as taxpayers and citizens of that section of Chesterfield County embraced in the act of the General Assembly of this State, exempting said section from the provisions of the general stock law.
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Before Gary, J., Chesterfield, April, 1901. Action by Alexander Goodale et al. against Ervin Sowell et al. The Circuit decree is as follows: “This is an action on the equity side of the Court, for an injunction, brought by the plaintiffs as taxpayers and citizens of that section of Chesterfield County embraced in the act of the General Assembly of this State, exempting said section from the provisions of the general stock law. The action is against certain commissioners created under and by the act of 1899, page 172, entitled 'An act to provide for commissioners to superintend the stock law…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Gary.
This appeal involves the constitutionality of certain statutes exempting portions of Chesterfield County from the operation of the general stock law. The facts are fully set out in the decree of his Honor, the Circuit Judge, which will be reported. The conclusions announced in that decree, for the reasons therein stated, supersede the necessity on the part of this Court for an extended discussion of the questions under consideration; especially as the Court has already passed upon the constitutionality of similar statutes in the cases…
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