City of Albany v. Cameron & Barkley Co.

This case comes up on exceptions to the overruling of a demurrer to the plaintiff’s petition, and to the allowance of an amendment over the objection of the defendant that it set up a new and distinct cause of action. The petition makes substantially the following case: Joyce had contracted to bore an artesian well for the City of Albany, and as an incident to the fulfillment of his contract had become indebted to the Cameron & Barkley Company, a South Carolina corporation, on account of material used in the well. After having bored several hundred feet without obtaining a flow of water, it…