Legal Opinion

Burriss v. Burriss

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Decided January 26, 1920No. 10348Published

Action on agreed statement of facts by-J. Boyce Burriss and another, as executors of the estate of William Burriss, deceased, against Mrs. Carrie Earle Burriss and others, as executors of the estate of R. M. Burriss, deceased.

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Action on agreed statement of facts by-J. Boyce Burriss and another, as executors of the estate of William Burriss, deceased, against Mrs. Carrie Earle Burriss and others, as executors of the estate of R. M. Burriss, deceased. From the.judgment, plaintiffs appeal. submits: That plaintiffs were entitled to interest on the sum of twenty-one hundred and seventeen dollars admitted to he due on May ¡i, 1913: 49 S. C. 449. submit: That in such a case of accounting where plaintiff’s demand is unascertained and unliquidated the balance found to be due on the account bears interest only from when the…

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Fraser.

On the following agreed statement of facts, this pase was submitted to Judge Frank B. Gary:

“It is hereby admitted that the estate of R. M. Burriss is indebted to the estate of William Burriss in the sum of $2,117 growing out of the transaction as set forth in the complaint herein, and that the aforesaid sum was due by the estate of R. M. Burriss to the estate of William Burriss on May 31, 1913, when the storeroom which was jointly owned by the estate of William Burriss and the estate of R. M. Burriss was sold; and in that connection…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Wakefield v. SpoonSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1915

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