Roberts v. Jones
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Townsend, J., Anderson, Action by James T. Roberts against J. T. C. Jones in magistrate court. From judgment on circuit for plaintiff on appeal from magistrate, defendant appeals.
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Before Townsend, J., Anderson, Action by James T. Roberts against J. T. C. Jones in magistrate court. From judgment on circuit for plaintiff on appeal from magistrate, defendant appeals. The rent contract in question is as follows, omitting the formal parts: “This indenture, made and entered into between * * * witness: That the party of the first part has agreed to- rent, and does hereby rent, to the party of the second part * * * consisting of dwelling house and about twenty acres of land, it being all the land in cultivation of what is known as the Jno. Catlett place, and also about two-…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice Pope.
This action has had four trials in the magistrate court, two before Magistrate B. E. Wilson, and two before Magistrate J. A. O’Neal. The verdict of the jury in the last case tried before Magistrate O’Neal was in favor of the defendant for $1 on his counterclaim, from which judgment the plaintiff appealed, and the matter came on to' be heard before Judge Townsend, in the Court of Common Pleas for Anderson County, who reversed the decision of the magistrate court, and gave the plaintiff a judgment for $12; and from this judgment…
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