GOULD v. BARTON

19225

256 S.C. 175 (1971)

181 S.E.2d 662

Paul Raymond GOULD and Everett Clarence Gourlay, Individually and representing the taxpayers and property owners of the Recreation District in Richland County, and Irmo-Chapin Recreation District in Lexington County, Respondents-Appellants, v. Donald F. BARTON et al., Appellants-Respondents, and Frank W. Schmitt, individually and representing the taxpayers and property owners of the City of Columbia, South Carolina, Respondent-Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

May 27, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. James A. Hutto, Jr., of Columbia, and Theodore B. Guerard, Sinkler, Gibbs, Simons & Guerard, of Charleston, for the Appellants-Respondents, Riverbanks Parks Commission and Richland-Lexington Riverbanks Parks District, and Daniel R. McLeod, Atty. Gen., Joel E. Gottlieb, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Columbia, for Appellant-Respondent, Daniel R. McLeod as Attorney General for the State of South Carolina.

George H. Davis, Jr., Esq., of Columbia, for all Respondents-Appellants.

Messrs. James A. Hutto, Jr., of Columbia, and Theodore B. Guerard, Sinkler, Gibbs, Simons & Guerard, of Charleston, for the Appellants-Respondents, Riverbanks Parks Commission and Richland-Lexington Riverbanks Parks District, and Daniel R. McLeod, Atty. Gen., Joel E. Gottlieb, Asst. Attorney General for the State of South Carolina, in reply.


May 27, 1971.

LEWIS. Justice.

The issues in this appeal involve the constitutionality of legislation adopted by the General Assembly at its 1969 and 1970 sessions, by which the territory embraced within the counties of Richland and Lexington has been constituted a special purpose district and a political subdivision of the State for the purpose of issuing bonds to establish "public recreation and zoo facilities" on...

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