State ex rel. Peeples v. Gibbes

Citations

• 108 S.C. 136
• 93 S.E. 449
• 1917 S.C. LEXIS 217

Syllabus

<p>Courts — South Carolina Supreme Court — Original Jurisdiction. — Under Court rule 25 (104 S. C. 534, 90 S. E. 11), declaring that neither the Supreme Court nor any Justice shall entertain motions for issuance of writs in the original jurisdiction when such motions can be made before Circuit Judges in the first instance without material prejudice to the rights of the parties, and that, if public interests are involved, or if special grounds of emergency exist where the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court should be exercised, those facts must be stated in the moving papers, the Supreme Court will decline to take original jurisdiction of a proceeding where the issues might be decided in the Circuit Court, and the case brought to the Supreme Court on appeal as early as it could be heard in exercise of the original jurisdiction.</p>