Means v. State Highway Dept. of South Carolina
Decision Date | 17 May 1928 |
Docket Number | 12451. |
Citation | 143 S.E. 360,146 S.C. 19 |
Parties | MEANS et al. v. STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT OF SOUTH CAROLINA. |
Court | South Carolina Supreme Court |
Original action in the Supreme Court by J. E. Means and others against the State Highway Department of South Carolina . Petition dismissed.
B. F Martin, of Greenville, for petitioners.
John M Daniel, Atty. Gen., and Cordie Page, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.
Among the routes directed by the act of 1924 (33 Stat. 1193), known as the "pay-as-you-go" act, to be taken over by the state highway department for construction and maintenance, in Greenville county, is the route, "From Pickens county line northeasterly on routes Nos. 2 and 8 by way of Greenville, Taylor and Greer to the Spartanburg county line;" and in Pickens county, "From Greenville county line westerly on route No. 2 by way of Easley Liberty, Norris, Central and Calhoun to the Oconee county line."
In 1927 the highway department awarded contracts for the construction of a highway between the city of Greenville and the town of Easley, which the department claimed to be a relocation of route 2, designated in the 1924 act to be built and hard-surfaced between these two points. The petitioners then brought this action in the original jurisdiction of the court to restrain the defendant from constructing the proposed substituted highway for the one named in the act; their contention being that the highway department was without legal authority to make the proposed substitution.
At the 1928 session of the Legislature, no decision having yet been rendered by the court, an act was passed, the purpose of which was, as stated in its title, "to establish the location of sections of state highway No. 2 in Greenville and Pickens counties." The petitioners now raise the question of the constitutionality of this act and have asked the court to pass upon it in this action.
The act is as follows:
In passing upon the constitutionality of a statute, the court will keep in mind certain well-established principles. In the case of McKiever v. City of Sumter, 137 S.C. 266, 135 S.E. 60, it was said:
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