RUGGLES v. PADGETT

17936

240 S.C. 494 (1962)

126 S.E.2d 553

W. E. RUGGLES and Joseph B. Gilchrist, individually and as Representatives of Other Taxpayers and Homeowners in Hanahan Public Service District, Appellants, v. Bennie PADGETT, V.B. Staton, E.E. Mosley, J.D. Kelley and Frank Sineri, individually and as the Hanahan Public Service District, a body politic and corporate; Randell C. Stoney, C. Fletcher Carter, Jr., J. Palmer Gaillard, Jr., Wilson H. Orvin and Clarence W. Legerton, individually and as the Commissioners of Public Works of the City of Charleston, and Daniel R. McLeod, Attorney General of South Carolina, Respondents.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

June 21, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Shipley, Esq., of Moncks Corner, for Appellants.

Messrs. Dennis & Dennis, of Moncks Corner, and Sinkler, Gibbs & Simons, of Charleston, for Respondent, Hanahan Public Service District and Commission, and William C. Ehrhardt, of Charleston for Respondents, Commissioners of Public Works of the City of Charleston, and Daniel R. McLeod, Attorney General, of Columbia, in propria persona.


June 21, 1962.

MOSS, Justice.

This action is one under the "Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act", Sections 10-2001 et seq., 1952 Code of Laws. The purpose of the action is to determine the constitutionality of certain provisions of two statutes enacted by the General Assembly in 1960, intended to furnish a method for the establishment and financing of a public sewage disposal system for Hanahan Public Service...

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