Huff v. Watkins
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Hudson, J., Newberry, November, 1883. This was an action by William T. Huff against William Watkins, commenced May 16th, 1879. The complaint alleges that, about January 1st, 1879, the plaintiff employed one Jordan Butler to serve him as an agricultural laborer for and during that, year, and that he did so serve the plaintiff for about the period of two months, receiving advances in the meanwhile from the plaintiff; that about March 1st the said Jordan Butler, secretly…
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Before Hudson, J., Newberry, November, 1883. This was an action by William T. Huff against William Watkins, commenced May 16th, 1879. The complaint alleges that, about January 1st, 1879, the plaintiff employed one Jordan Butler to serve him as an agricultural laborer for and during that, year, and that he did so serve the plaintiff for about the period of two months, receiving advances in the meanwhile from the plaintiff; that about March 1st the said Jordan Butler, secretly and without cause, left the employ of the said plaintiff and hired to the defendant; that the plaintiff at once gave…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Justice McGowan.
This was an action to recover damages for enticing a servant employed by the plaintiff to leave his employment. The case has been in this court twice before. See 15 S. C. 83, and 18 Id. 510. At the last hearing here, the verdict for defendant was set aside and the case sent back for a new trial, but before it was heard on Circuit for the third time, the defendant died, (October, 1883,) leaving a will, of which James F. Watkins became the qualified executor. At the next term (November) of the court the plaintiff moved to substitute…
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