SOUTHERN BELL TEL. & TEL. CO. v. CITY OF AIKEN

21964

279 S.C. 269 (1983)

306 S.E.2d 220

SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY, Appellant-Respondent, v. CITY OF AIKEN and I.M. Hendrix, as Its Treasurer, Respondents-Appellants.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

July 25, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julian B. Salley, Jr., Aiken, Hubert F. Owens and William J. Quirk, Columbia, for appellant-respondent.

Henry Summerall, Jr., Aiken, and Roy D. Bates, Columbia, for respondents-appellants.


July 25, 1983.

LEWIS, Chief Justice:

Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company appeals from a judgment enforcing the license tax ordinance enacted by the City of Aiken. We conclude that the ordinance as applied to the appellant offends the Equal Protection Clauses of the South Carolina and United States Constitutions. Constitution of South Carolina, Article I, Section 3; Constitution of the United States, Amendment XIV; United States Fidelity and Guaranty...

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