Supreme Court of South Carolina June 28, 1870 (State ex rel. Townsend v. McIver)

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Moses, C. J.

The Court, in The State, Ex Rel., The South Carolina Railroad Company vs. The Columbia and Augusta Railroad Company, (January, 1869, 1 S. C., N. S., 46,) held that, by virtue of the power conferred by the 4th Section of the 4th Article of the Constitution, it had authority to issue writs of prohibition in cases properly cognizable by it.