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The court's current selection method is legislative election.

Supreme Court of South Carolina / Joined 1954 / Served to 1961

Lionel K. Legge

Justice, Supreme Court of South Carolina

Lionel K. Legge was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, who joined the court in 1954. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1889 · age 137
Tenure: 1954–1961 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1954	Supreme Court of South Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Legge authored 231 published opinions for the court (1954–1968), plus 7 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Rogers Ex Rel. Rogers v. Florence Printing Co. (100 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 44 of these were attributed to Legge by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1958	Rogers Ex Rel. Rogers v. Florence Printing Co.	106 S.E.2d 258	100
1955	State v. Littlejohn	89 S.E.2d 924	79
1960	SC FINANCE CORP. OF ANDERSON v. West Side Finance Co.	113 S.E.2d 329	59
1958	Elliott v. Black River Electric Cooperative	104 S.E.2d 357	48
1958	State v. Hollman	102 S.E.2d 873	48
1955	Richards v. City of Columbia· Dissent†	88 S.E.2d 683	48
1967	Huggins v. Winn-Dixie Greenville, Inc.	153 S.E.2d 693	46
1955	State v. Whitener	89 S.E.2d 701	46
1957	Simon v. Flowers	99 S.E.2d 391	43
1955	Mock Ex Rel. Estate of Mock v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad· Concurrence†	87 S.E.2d 830	41
1959	State v. Mayfield	109 S.E.2d 716	39
1958	Colonial Life & Accident Insurance v. South Carolina Tax Commission	103 S.E.2d 908	39
1957	State v. MOUZON· Concurrence†	99 S.E.2d 672	38
1966	Pitts v. New York Life Insurance	148 S.E.2d 369	37
1960	Boney v. Trans-State Dredging Co.	115 S.E.2d 508	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 246 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of South Carolina reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is legislative election.
Which court was Lionel K. Legge on?: Lionel K. Legge was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Sources

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7 years on the Supreme Court of South Carolina. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).