McEachern v. Wilson

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Carter.

On the 9th of November, 1928, the plaintiff, J. R. Mc-Eachern, commenced an action in the Court of Common Pleas for Sumter County, against John Wilson, Mary Wilson, and G. A. Lemmon, as trustees of the estate of Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson, deceased, based upon an alleged tort committed by the said Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson, deceased, during her lifetime, through her alleged agent, I. C. Strauss, her attorney; it being alleged, in plaintiff’s original complaint, that the plaintiff by misrepresentation and fraud had been cheated out of the sum…