Edwards v. Johnson
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Watts, J., Greenville, August, 1910. Action by H. A. Edwards, W. J. Thackston and H. J. Haynsworth against R. E. Johnson. Both parties appeal. Mr. Haynsworth cites: Johnson is estopped from denying the validity of the Udwards option: 114 S. W. 410 ; 42 S. C. 74; 6 E. & B. 932; 92 U. S. 109. Johnson stood in the position of constructive trustee: 48 Am. R. 645; 57 Am.
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Before Watts, J., Greenville, August, 1910. Action by H. A. Edwards, W. J. Thackston and H. J. Haynsworth against R. E. Johnson. Both parties appeal. Mr. Haynsworth cites: Johnson is estopped from denying the validity of the Udwards option: 114 S. W. 410 ; 42 S. C. 74; 6 E. & B. 932; 92 U. S. 109. Johnson stood in the position of constructive trustee: 48 Am. R. 645; 57 Am. R. 153; 52 N. E. 656; Story on Part. 174-8; 61 N. Y. 125; 129 U. S. 512; 27 Miss. 494; 11 Mich. 222; 100 Am. Dec. 304; 21 Pac. 413; 57 Am. R. 153; 57 C. C. A. 646. Where delay in enforcing a legal right is caused by…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. 'Chief Justice Jones.
This is an action for an accounting by the defendant to the plaintiffs for their share in profits alleged to 'have been realized by the defendant in a certain joint undertaking of the parties and which the plaintiffs claim to be entitled to recover by -reason of the relation of trust alleged to have existed. Both the plaintiffs and the defendant appeal from the decree of Judge Watts, which overruled certain findings and conclusions of the master and directed judgment in favor of the plaintiffs for the sum of one hundred…
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