Martin v. Suber
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Izlar, J., Newberry, November, 1892; Action by James N. Martin against Texan na Súber. The judge charged the jury as follows: You are to deal with, and are the sole judges of, the facts. I cannot even intimate an opinion as to them. I can only give you the law applicable to the case, as I understand it, and leave you to find the facts and apply the law to the facts as you may find them from the evidence. In this case the execution of the note sued on is admitted.
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Before Izlar, J., Newberry, November, 1892; Action by James N. Martin against Texan na Súber. The judge charged the jury as follows: You are to deal with, and are the sole judges of, the facts. I cannot even intimate an opinion as to them. I can only give you the law applicable to the case, as I understand it, and leave you to find the facts and apply the law to the facts as you may find them from the evidence. In this case the execution of the note sued on is admitted. On this point, therefore, you will have no difficulty. There is, however, some difficulty as to the law of the case, and I…
1Opinion of the Court
the opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice McIver.
This was an action to recover a specific sum of money, which the defendant had promised to pay to the plaintiff by her promissory note. The first allegation in the complaint, and the only one which it is deemed necessary to notice, is in the following words: “That the defendant is indebted to plaintiff in the sum of six hundred and sixty-five dollars and ninety-two cents, with interest from the 27th day of January, A. D. 1888, at the rate of seven per cent, per annum, which said sum of money the defendant, by her promissory…
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