Murray Drug Co. v. Harris
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Rule in Murray Drug Co. and Cliff Weil Cigar Co. against W. E. Harris and W. W. Abbott against E. K. Gibson, requiring him to show cause why he should not be made a party defendant. Erom refusal of Rule, defendant, W. W. Abbott, appeals. cite: Code of Proc., 139, 143; 4 S. C., 510; 11 Barb., 516; 133 U. S., 579; 1 Dan. Oh. PI. & Pr, 246, etc.; Story’s Eq. PI., sec. 72; 15 Eney.
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Rule in Murray Drug Co. and Cliff Weil Cigar Co. against W. E. Harris and W. W. Abbott against E. K. Gibson, requiring him to show cause why he should not be made a party defendant. Erom refusal of Rule, defendant, W. W. Abbott, appeals. cite: Code of Proc., 139, 143; 4 S. C., 510; 11 Barb., 516; 133 U. S., 579; 1 Dan. Oh. PI. & Pr, 246, etc.; Story’s Eq. PI., sec. 72; 15 Eney. P. & P., 675-9, 988; 6 S. C., 22; 128 U. S., 403. cites: 34 S. E., 568; 26 S. E., 468; 100 U. S., 239; 26 S. C., 511.
1Opinion of the Court
July 23, 1907. The opinion of the Court was delivered by In April, 1906, W.E. Harris, one of the defendants herein, conveyed to W.W. Abbott, a codefendant, his entire stock of goods, consisting principally of cigars, tobacco, etc., for the sum of twenty-eight hundred fifty-nine dollars and sixty-four cents. This action was brought under the act of 1906, 25 Stat., 1, which sets out the manner in which mercantile stocks may be transferred in bulk, by the plaintiffs, Murray Drug Company and Cliff Weil Cigar Company, creditors of W.E. Harris, in their own behalf and for the benefit of such other…
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