White v. Harris
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Buchanan, J., Union, October term, 1902. Action by T. H. White and M. S. Lewis against I. S. Harris, W. C. Nelson and R. N. Harris.
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Before Buchanan, J., Union, October term, 1902. Action by T. H. White and M. S. Lewis against I. S. Harris, W. C. Nelson and R. N. Harris. From judgment for plaintiffs, defendants appeal on the following exceptions: “1. Because the presiding Judge erred in refusing to admit testimony of one of the defendants as to a conversation between him and one Cross, one of the payees named in the notes, in reference to the transaction in which the notes were given, on the ground that defendant could not ‘invalidate that note/ thus precluding the defendants from defenses they might have set up against…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chiee Justice Pope.
The defendants made their joint and several notes to Camp and Cross on the 22d May, 1901, in these words:
“$125.00. Union, South_ Carolina, May 22, 1901.
“September 1st, 1901, after date, we either of us promise to pay to the order of Camp and Cross-, one hundred and twenty-five dollars at the banking house of Wm. A. Nicholson & Son, bankers, at Union, S. C., value received with interest after maturity at the rate of eight per cent, per annum until paid. We agree in default of payment after maturity, to pay ten per cent, for…
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