Wilder v. South Carolina State Highway Department

Oxner, Associate Justice.

This controversy stems from a proviso in the General Appropriation Act of 1954 authorizing the State Highway Department “to add to each motor vehicle license fee an amount not to exceed 30 cents to cover postage charges.” 48 St. at L., page 1662. The case is here on an appeal from an order overruling a demurrer to the complaint.

Plaintiff alleged in his complaint that he owned two automobiles; that on October 29, 1954, he applied at the office of the Highway Patrol in the City of Sumter for license plates for the year commencing November 1, 1954 and tendered the…