Supreme Court of South Carolina November 15, 1817 (Ford v. Whitaker)

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Bay, J.

The important and long contested point of the constitutionality of the road laws, and the powers of the commissioners, are not called in question in this case, for the plaintiff’s counsel conceded that point, *at the commencement of his argument, as one that had been settled and at rest, (a) But he contended that the Fairfield board of