Hursey v. Surles
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before DeVorE, J., Dillon, Fall' term, 1910. Action by John A. Hursey against Allen Surles and D. TI. Hyatt, executors of Archibald B. Surles. Defendants .appeal.
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Before DeVorE, J., Dillon, Fall' term, 1910. Action by John A. Hursey against Allen Surles and D. TI. Hyatt, executors of Archibald B. Surles. Defendants .appeal. Mr. Johnson cites: Contract to make a specific devise cannot be enforced on the law side of the Court: 48 S. C. 90; 22 S. C. 467. No contract shown: 3-8 S. C. 179; 34 S. C. 255. Services rendered may have been accepted as gratuitous: 67 S. C. 244; 35 S. C. 551; 37 S. C. 161; 53 S. C. 382; 80 S. C. 160. Such account should not bear ■interest: 2 Bay 233; 30 S. C. 177; 1 T. Com. R. 21; 2 Bail. -173; 2 Hill 468. Mr. Sellers cites: The…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered :by
Mr. Justice Woods.
In this, action of John H. Hursey against the executors of Archibald Surles to recover compensation for alleged services rendered to S-uirles in his lifetime, the plaintiff recovered judgment for $1,866.25. The more important questions made by the appeal depend ora the Court’s view of the scope of the issues made by the following material allegations of the pleading's. The complaint alleges: “That at the time of the death of the said Archibald B. Surles., the testator of the defendant, he was indebted to the plaintiff upon an account…
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