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HORRY COUNTY v. COOKE

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275 S.C. 19 (1980)

267 S.E.2d 82

HORRY COUNTY, a Body Politic, Petitioner, v. Eunice COOKE, George Johnson, Edmee Geyer, Elvin D. Tirrell, and Gladys Adams, as Commissioners of Election for Horry County, and Daniel R. McLeod, Attorney General of the State of South Carolina, Respondents. In re HORRY COUNTY, a Body Politic, Plaintiff, v. Eunice COOKE, George Johnson, Edmee Geyer, Elvin D. Tirrell, and Gladys Adams, as Commissioners of Election for Horry County, and Daniel R. McLeod, Attorney General of the State of South Carolina, Defendants.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

May 27, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Henry, of Thompson, Henry & Lovelace, Conway, for plaintiff.

Atty. Gen. Daniel R. McLeod, Deputy Atty. Gen. C. Tolbert Goolsby, Jr., Senior Asst. Atty. Gen. Treva G. Ashworth, and State Atty. David C. Eckstrom, Columbia, for defendants.

May 27, 1980.

HARWELL, Justice:

This action in the original jurisdiction of the court, was brought by Horry County under the Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act, § 15-53-10, et seq., S.C. Code Ann. (1976), to determine the constitutionality of Acts R308 §§ 2, 4 and R320 of the 1980 Acts of the South Carolina General Assembly which provide for the election of members of the Horry County Council.

In August 1975, pursuant to the then...

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