MR. JUSTICE BROWN, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.
The gravamen of the bill is the alleged impairment by the statute of 1903 of the contract entered into in 1898, by which defendants agreed to remove the dam then existing, and to allow such creek to remain open and unobstructed.
It was also charged that the constitution of South Carolina declaring that all navigable waters should forever remain public highways was...
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