Standard Supply Co. v. Carter Harris
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Prince, J., Lee, September, 1907. Action by Standard Supply Company against Carter & Harris. From order overruling demurrer to answer, plaintiff appeals. Messrs. Lee & Moise cite: Damages set up in answer are too remote: 22 L. Ed. U. S., 264; 34 L. Ed. U. S., 911; 31 L. Ed.
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Before Prince, J., Lee, September, 1907. Action by Standard Supply Company against Carter & Harris. From order overruling demurrer to answer, plaintiff appeals. Messrs. Lee & Moise cite: Damages set up in answer are too remote: 22 L. Ed. U. S., 264; 34 L. Ed. U. S., 911; 31 L. Ed. U. S., 479; 1 How., 32; 100 U. S., 500; 139 U. S., 199; 32 Mo., 305; 21 Wend., 342; 5 Ency., 13 ; 8 Ency., 623; 13 Cyc., 34, 35, 36, 37, 49; 70 S. C., 8; 25 S. C., 68; 27 S. C., 456; 38 S. C„ 284; Dud., 180; 60 S. C., 254. Additional grounds by respondent will not be considered by this Court in a law case: 79 S. C.,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Woods.
The complaint alleges an indebtedness of the defendants to the plaintiff of three hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty cents, the price of a lot of roofing and a twelve by fourteen Clarke engine. The answer, as a counterclaim], sets up damages to the amount of nineteen hundred ninety-five dollars for breach of contract of sale. The appeal is from an order of the Circuit Judge overruling a demurrer to' the answer.
Shortly stated, the substantial allegations of the answer on which the counterclaim rests are: The defendants,…
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