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Supreme Court of South Carolina / Joined 1931 / Served to 1943

Milledge Lipscomb Bonham

Justice, Supreme Court of South Carolina

Milledge Lipscomb Bonham was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, who joined the court in 1931. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1854–1943
Tenure: 1931–1943 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1931	Supreme Court of South Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bonham authored 500 published opinions for the court (1929–1943), plus 38 dissents and 27 concurrences. Most cited: Marchbanks v. Duke Power Co. (90 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. 11 of these were attributed to Bonham 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
1939	Marchbanks v. Duke Power Co.	2 S.E.2d 825	90
1929	State Ex Rel. Richards v. Moorer· Dissent	150 S.E. 269	73
1933	Tyger River Pine Co. v. Maryland Casualty Co.	170 S.E. 346	72
1938	Mishoe v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co.· Dissent	197 S.E. 97	54
1935	Livingston v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co.	180 S.E. 343	48
1942	Creech v. South Carolina Public Service Authority· Dissent	20 S.E.2d 645	45
1940	Ham v. Mullins Lumber Co.	7 S.E.2d 712	44
1934	Turner v. American Motorists Ins. Co.	180 S.E. 55	39
1936	Salley v. McCoy· Concurrence	189 S.E. 196	38
1943	Arnold v. City of Spartanburg	23 S.E.2d 735	36
1934	Anderson v. Aetna Casualty and Surety Co.	178 S.E. 819	35
1932	Pardue v. Pardue· Concurrence	166 S.E. 101	35
1942	Johnson v. Pratt	20 S.E.2d 865	33
1934	Halsey v. Minnesota-South Carolina Land & Timber Co.	177 S.E. 29	33
1932	Reeves v. City of Easley	166 S.E. 120	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 566 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 Milledge Lipscomb Bonham on?: Milledge Lipscomb Bonham was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Sources

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12 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).