State v. Bowen
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Prince, J., Kershaw, Fall term, 1917. Action by the State of South Carolina against E. H. Bowen and others. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants appeal. submit: It was error to admit in evidence a certified copy of original bond on file in the State treasurer’s office — the original bond was the best evidence: Vol.
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Before Prince, J., Kershaw, Fall term, 1917. Action by the State of South Carolina against E. H. Bowen and others. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants appeal. submit: It was error to admit in evidence a certified copy of original bond on file in the State treasurer’s office — the original bond was the best evidence: Vol. I, Code of Laws of SC. 1912, sec. 3992; Code of Laws of S. C. 1912, sec. 3996. It was error to direct a verdict for plaintiff in the sum of $9,360.50, when the plaintiff had failed to prove that said shortage had occurred during the last term of Sheriff Huckabee, at which…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Hydrick.
This is an action against the sureties on the last official bond of the late W. W. Huckabee, as sheriff of Kershaw county. He was appointed in October, 1912, to fill an unexpired term, and was elected in November of the same year for a full term, and was commissioned January 1-, 1913. He was re-elected, in November, 1916, and commissioned on February 8, 1917, haying given the bond here sued on, dated February 1, 1917. He died in office April 18, 1917. On September 17, 1915, the county treasurer turned over to him tax executions for…
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