Fairey v. City of Orangeburg

Legge, Justice.

This appeal is from an order sustaining a demurrer to a complaint, the allegations of which were substantially as follows:

Between July 28 and November 4, 1953, the city of Orangeburg, a municipal corporation of more than five thousand inhabitants, maintained on its trash and garbage dump a herd of swine, to which it fed uncooked garbage although it had no permit from the proper state or county authorities to do so, and although it knew that such practice was likely to infect the herd with vesicular exanthema, a highly contagious and often fatal disease. On October 16, 1953, the…