Sherer-Gillett Co. v. Moore-Barnes Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Bowman, J., Hampton, October term, 1919. Action by Sherer-Gillett Co. against Moore-Barnes Co. on account. From order granting a new trial after verdict for plaintiff, the plaintiff appeals. cites: Motion for new trial did not come within provisions of section 324. Code Proc, and should not have been granted. cites: Instrument sued on was a chattel mortgage: 19 S. E. 132; 74 S. C. 450; 20 S. E. 759; 93 S. C. 99; 67 S. E. 488 (N. C.). Sale of property under chattel…
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Before Bowman, J., Hampton, October term, 1919. Action by Sherer-Gillett Co. against Moore-Barnes Co. on account. From order granting a new trial after verdict for plaintiff, the plaintiff appeals. cites: Motion for new trial did not come within provisions of section 324. Code Proc, and should not have been granted. cites: Instrument sued on was a chattel mortgage: 19 S. E. 132; 74 S. C. 450; 20 S. E. 759; 93 S. C. 99; 67 S. E. 488 (N. C.). Sale of property under chattel mortgage regulated: 1 Civ. Code 1912, sec. 4105. In case of conversion if value of property exceed debt overplus must-be…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Gage.
The plaintiff had a verdict against the defendant for $443.50, the purchase price of goods sold. The Court set the verdict aside: (1) Because the contract of sale constituted the plaintiff a mortgagee, and that the plaintiff’s consequent remedy was not to keep the property and sue for the price, but to sell the property and sue the defendant for any deficiency; (2) because the circumstances of the taking of the property by the plaintiff constituted the act a conversion, and we add warrants the presumptive inference that the conversion…
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