State ex rel. Anderson v. Sims

Citations

• 18 S.C. 460
• 1883 S.C. LEXIS 15

Syllabus

<p>1. Query. Can the board of State canvassers be required by mandamus to declare an election ?</p> <p>2. No clerk of court could be lawfully elected on November 7th, 1882, as there was no authority for such an election on that day. The statute (Qen. Stat. 1882, \\ 160,) authorized an election for clerk of court only at every alternate-general election, reckoning from the year 1880; and if the clerk be a State officer, as has been held, then the constitution required the election to be had at every alternate general election, beginning with the year 1868. Const., Art. XIV., I 10.†</p>