Supreme Court of South Carolina, 1816

Martin v. M'Murphy

Martin v. M'Murphy
Supreme Court of South Carolina · Decided April 15, 1816 · Bay, Cobcocii, Gbimke, Nott, Smith
5 S.C.L. 555

Martin v. M'Murphy

Opinion of the Court

Nott, J.

The only ground for the prohibition in this case, was the want of a written lease. The magistrates, in answer to the rule to show cause, merely certified their proceedings, and require the court to determine the question, upon a view of these proceedings. They do not shew that there was any written lease, nor was it even pretended. Indeed, the return was a tacit acknowledgment, that the allegation in the suggestion was true. The prohibítion, therefore, was properly granted; for magistrates have no such jurisdiction, except where there is a written lease. The motion must, therefore, be rejected.

Gbimke, Smith, Bay, and Cobcocii, Js., concurred.

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