159 S.E. 551 | S.C. | 1931
June 23, 1931. The opinion of the Court was delivered was This action, by the Town of West Greenville, a municipal corporation of the State of South Carolina, commenced in the Court of Common Pleas for Greenville County, May, 1930, against the members of the State Highway Commission, the Chief Highway Commissioner, and the State Highway Department of South Carolina, is an action for a writ of mandamus, requiring the defendants to pay the plaintiff the cost for paving a certain street in the said town, which street, the plaintiff alleges, composes a part of the State Highway System. The plaintiff bases the action upon Act No. 219, approved March 4, 1929 (36 St. at Large, 247), and Act No. 731, approved March 21, 1924 (33 St. at Large, 1193). The matter came before his Honor, Judge T.J. Mauldin, on application for a rule, which his Honor granted, and, pursuant to the rule thus issued, the matter was heard before his Honor, Judge Mauldin, July, 1930, on *196 the complaint and amendments allowed thereto, affidavits in support thereof, and demurrer, return, and answer filed by the defendants. Upon consideration, the trial Judge overruled the defendants' demurrer, adjudged the return insufficient, and issued a writ of mandamus, granting unto the plaintiff the relief sought. From the order issued by his Honor, Judge Mauldin, the defendants have appealed to this Court.
Under our view of the case, it is unnecessary to discuss the several exceptions presented by the appellants, but consider it sufficient to state that, in our opinion, the trial Judge reached a correct conclusion in the case, and, in the main, we agree with the order issued. See Volume 1, Code, 1922, § 377, Subdivision 2; Gregory v. McInnis,
With this interpolation and this modification, it is the judgment of this Court that the order appealed from be, and is hereby affirmed.
MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BLEASE and MR. JUSTICE STABLER and MR. ACTING ASSOCIATE JUSTICE JOHN I. COSGROVE concur.
MR. JUSTICE COTHRAN disqualified.