Butler v. Ellerbe
Supreme Court of South Carolina
This was an original application to this court for injunction, M. C. Butler being the petitioner, and W. H. Ellerbe, comptroller general, and W. T. C. Bates, State treasurer, being the respondents.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Gary.
This action was instituted in this court, in its original jurisdiction, for an injunction against the defendants, as State officers, to restrain them from applying the public *258funds in the State treasury to the payment of certain appropriations made by the legislature, which, it is claimed, are illegal. The appropriations alleged to be illegal are those made in the appropriation act of 1893 for the pay of supervisors of registration, and for the pay of commissioners, managers, and messengers of elections for the fiscal year commencing…
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