Duke v. County of Williamsburg
Citations
- 21 S.C. 414
- 1884 S.C. LEXIS 113
Syllabus
<p>1. Quere: AVhafc is the proper remedy of a creditor of a county?</p> <p>2. County commissioners have no powers, except such as are conferred by the constitution, or by some statute in accordance therewith.</p> <p>3. A county of this state had no power in 1870 under the constitution and laws then of force, to execute bonds, without express authority of the legislature, for the purchase money of land bought for a poor farm : and bonds so executed were not valid obligations of the county.</p> <p>4. But such bonds having been subsequently recognized by a joint resolution of the legislature as a part of the past indebtedness of the county which issued them, they thereupon became valid obligations of the county.</p> <p>5. And a repeal of this joint resolution could not take away from the obligee his right to enforce the contract so recognized and made valid.</p>
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Judges: Generally, McGowan, McIalgr, Only
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