Merchants Nat. Bank v. Smith
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Gary, J., Pickens,-term. Judgment in the case of Merchants National Bank affirmed, and judgment in the case of C. W. Hickman reversed and the case remanded with instructions to enter up judgment for plaintiff. Actions by the Merchants National Bank and by Charles W. Hickman against Lloyd PI. Smith and others.
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Before Gary, J., Pickens,-term. Judgment in the case of Merchants National Bank affirmed, and judgment in the case of C. W. Hickman reversed and the case remanded with instructions to enter up judgment for plaintiff. Actions by the Merchants National Bank and by Charles W. Hickman against Lloyd PI. Smith and others. From a judgment in the first case for plaintiff, defendants appeal; and from judgment in the second case for defendants, plaintiff appeals. submit: The Circuit Judge should have directed a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, for the reason that no other inference can be reasonably…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Watts.
The two cases above stated were heard together, and are known as the Bank case and the Hickman case, for convenience of reference. The Bank case is a suit on a note dated January 14, 1907, due October 1, 1909, for $1,000, and the Hickman case is a similar suit on a note of. the same date for $1,000 due October 1, Í 910. Both notes were given for a stallion sold the defendants by J. Crouch & Son, of the State of Indiana. The plaintiffs claim to be purchasers of value before due of said notes, without notice of the defenses relied upon…
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