Gilbert v. Bath

Rhodes, Justice.

Pursuant to permission duly granted, this declaratory judgment action was instituted in the original jurisdiction of this Court, by a citizen and taxpayer of Florence County, to determine the validity of a commitment made by the County of Florence to the Pee Dee Regional Health Services District (Pee Dee) to grant it $1,000,000 to be expended in the construction of a new regional hospital to be leased to McLeod Memorial Hospital (McLeod). Plaintiff challenges the validity of the commitment on various State constitutional grounds and further questions the statutory authority of…