State Ex Rel. Walker v. Derham
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Petition for mandamus in the original jurisdiction of this Court by J. Frost Walker, as clerk of the court of the county of Richland, to require J. P. Derham, comptroller general, to draw his warrant in 'his favor for pensions for citizens of Richland County entitled thereto, on basis of $150,000 appropriated for the whole State. cites: History of pension legislation: Acts 1887, pp. 826, 448; acts 1888, p. 26; acts 1894, pp. 714, 825; acts 1896, p. 185; acts 1897,-p. 495 1…
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Petition for mandamus in the original jurisdiction of this Court by J. Frost Walker, as clerk of the court of the county of Richland, to require J. P. Derham, comptroller general, to draw his warrant in 'his favor for pensions for citizens of Richland County entitled thereto, on basis of $150,000 appropriated for the whole State. cites: History of pension legislation: Acts 1887, pp. 826, 448; acts 1888, p. 26; acts 1894, pp. 714, 825; acts 1896, p. 185; acts 1897,-p. 495 1 acts 1898, p. 785; acts 1890, pp. 409, 484; acts 1901, p. 753. Reference by title to defunct act can have no resurrecting…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the 'Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Pope.
The petitioner, as clerk of court for the county of Richland, of the State of South Carolina, on the 29th April, 1901, made a demand upon the respondent, as comptroller general of the State of South Carolina., that he should issue to him his official warrant or warrants in the aggregate sum of $3,731.60 on the State Treasurer as the amount due the pensioners of Richland County, S. C., who had been soldiers or sailors in 'the service of the State or in the Confederate States in the war from the year 1861 to 1865, inclusive, in…
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