Caldwell v. Duncan
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Gage;, J., Barnwell. Action by Howard Caldwell against W. J. Duncan, W. H. Duncan, J. A. Koozer, L. W. Hill and H. C. Hay.
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Before Gage;, J., Barnwell. Action by Howard Caldwell against W. J. Duncan, W. H. Duncan, J. A. Koozer, L. W. Hill and H. C. Hay. From judgment for plaintiff, defendants appeal. cites: Options were the best evidence of the number of acres included therein: 75 S. C. 346; 60- S. C. 300'. It is error to attempt to coerce a jury into a verdict: 156 N. Y. 271. cite: It was not necessary to require the production of options: 43 S. C. 370'; 61 S. C. 292; 63 S. C. 78. Charge construed as a whole does not tend to coerce verdict: 86 S. C. 17; 74 S. C. 141.
1Opinion of the Court
December 6, 1910. The opinion of the Court was delivered by The complaint alleges that the defendants purchased from plaintiff certain options, which he had secured on timber rights on Upper Three Runs, in Aiken and Barnwell counties, under a written contract, dated July 31, 1907, whereby they agreed to save the plaintiff harmless from any claims and demands which W.D. Black had against him for procuring said options; that defendants knew, when they signed the contract, that Black had procured the options for plaintiff, and that plaintiff had agreed to pay him fifty cents an acre for his…
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