Elder Harrison Co. v. Jervey.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Shipp, J., Action by the Elder Harrison Company against Theodore D. Jervey, administrator of C. H. Jervey, deceased. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. : The matter arises on demurrer to the allegations: 37 S. C. 107-110; 16 S. C. 510; 31 S. E. 510; 35 S. E. 759-761; 13 S. E. 197; 69 S. E. 393; 11 S. E. 971; 70 S. E. 1038. In the accounting the whole case must be taken together, and upon that plaintiff cannot recover: 6 Term Rep. 105-108; 19 U. S. Sup.
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Before Shipp, J., Action by the Elder Harrison Company against Theodore D. Jervey, administrator of C. H. Jervey, deceased. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. : The matter arises on demurrer to the allegations: 37 S. C. 107-110; 16 S. C. 510; 31 S. E. 510; 35 S. E. 759-761; 13 S. E. 197; 69 S. E. 393; 11 S. E. 971; 70 S. E. 1038. In the accounting the whole case must be taken together, and upon that plaintiff cannot recover: 6 Term Rep. 105-108; 19 U. S. Sup. Ct. Reporter, 816; 7 Wall. (U. S.) 558. Recovery would enforce division of profits on an illegal transaction: 30 N. J.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was. delivered by
Mr. Justice Gage.
One C. H. Jervey, now dead, sold liquor to sundry persons in the city of Charleston, and collected the proceeds thereof. The sale was in violation of the letter of the State law. The Elder Harrison Company supplied the liquor from the State of Maryland. Jervey was not faithful to his trust; he kept some $400 of the money he collected. The Elder Harrison Company sued Jervey’s estate therefor. The administrator pleads that a Court ought not to entertain the suit. That is. the issue. The Court below overruled the plea, and sustained the…
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