Scroggie v. Bates

This action was commenced in the Court of Common Pleas for Richland County, South Carolina, by James B. Scroggie, a citizen and taxpayer, for the purpose of securing a temporary and permanent injunction to restrain the State Treasurer from paying to each member of the General Assembly the sum of Seven Plundred ($700.00) Dollars pursuant to the provisions of the Act of the General Assembly known as the Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1947, Act No. 287, R522, approved May 10, 1947, 45 St. at Large, p. 706 upon the ground that this provision of the Appropriation Act was in violation of Sections…