Ex parte Scarborough
Supreme Court of South Carolina
This was a petitiofi by W. D. Scarborough for a writ of mandamus. On hearing the petition, the court issued a rule requiring the Board of State Canvassers to show cause why the writ should not issue as ptayed for. To this rule return was duly made by the board, and there were no further pleadings. The following order was passed Per Curiam.
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This was a petitiofi by W. D. Scarborough for a writ of mandamus. On hearing the petition, the court issued a rule requiring the Board of State Canvassers to show cause why the writ should not issue as ptayed for. To this rule return was duly made by the board, and there were no further pleadings. The following order was passed Per Curiam. On hearing the pleadings and argument of counsel: It is ordered, that the petition be dismissed, upon the ground that the State Board of Canvassers are now, by the express terms of the act of 1882, invested with judicial power “to decide all cases under…
1Opinion of the Court
.The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Justice McIver.
This petition was filed in, and addressed to, this court in the exercise of its original jurisdiction, praying that a writ of mandamus might issue, directed to the *15Board of State Carivassers, ‘-commanding them to make and subscribe the proper statement, certifying therein that the petitioner had received the greatest number of votes for the office of State senator from Sumter County, and deliver the same to the secretary of State.”
1 It appears from the papers before us that the County Board of Canvassers for Sumter County, after…
2Cited by2 opinions
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- Scott v. ThorntonSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1959