Wheeler v. County of Newberry

Citations

• 18 S.C. 132
• 1882 S.C. LEXIS 117

Syllabus

<p>1. Where a creditor of a county desires to enforce an audited claim, should he proceed by mandamus or by ordinary civil action ?</p> <p>2. The act of 1878 (16 -Stat. 311), authorizing the appointment of a commission to ascertain the indebtedness of the several counties of the State, did not constitute such a commission a court, and therefore an adjudication by it upon a claim against their county, not submitted to it by the claimant, is no bar to a subsequent action in the Court of Common Pleas upon the claim.</p> <p>3. An audited claim against a county does not bear interest until judgment recovered thereon.</p>