Folsom v. Greenwood County

Citations

• 130 F. 730
• 1904 U.S. App. LEXIS 4845

Syllabus

<p>1. Counties — Indebtedness—Liability fob Debts of Dissolved Township.</p> <p>A county in South Carolina, which, under the Constitution and laws of the state, can levy taxes only for specified county purposes, and has no power to contract obligations except such as are expressly or by necessary implication authorized by statute, cannot be adjudged by a federal court liable for the payment of bonds issued before the county was created by a township which was at the time a body corporate forming part of another county, but has, since its territory was included in the new county, been dissolved by a constitutional amendment; no provision having been made by the state for the payment of its debts.</p> <p>If 1. Effect of dissolution and reincorporation of municipal corporation on indebtedness, see note to City of Uvalde v. Spier, 33 C. C. A. 506.</p>