Robertson v. Tillman
Supreme Court of South Carolina
This was an original application to this court by Edwin W. Robertson, bondholder of old debt and taxpayer, for a writ of injunction to restrain B. R. Tillman, governor, and W. T. C. Bates, state treasurer, from issuing new bonds under their contract with the purchasers. ' •
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice McIver.
This is an application, addressed to this court in the exercise of its original jurisdiction, instituted by the plaintiff, as a citizen and taxpayer of this State, to enjoin and restrain the defendants from issuing the bonds of this State, to the amount of five million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to the Baltimore Trust and Guarantee Company, under a contract between said company and the defendants, heretofore adjudged to be valid by this court, in the case of Evans v. Tillman, 38 S. C., 238, upon the ground that the…
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