Burnett v. Ballund
Supreme Court of South Carolina
This case was tried in the Inferior City Court, at March Term, 1820, where a verdict was found for the plaintiff. *On a motion in arrest of judgment, and for a new trial, made in this Court, the case made by the report of the honorable the Recorder, was L substantially as follows : The defendants had severally obtained licenses as vendue masters, and after-wards entered into a copartnership in that business, and this was an action against them as vendue masters, founded on…
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This case was tried in the Inferior City Court, at March Term, 1820, where a verdict was found for the plaintiff. *On a motion in arrest of judgment, and for a new trial, made in this Court, the case made by the report of the honorable the Recorder, was L substantially as follows : The defendants had severally obtained licenses as vendue masters, and after-wards entered into a copartnership in that business, and this was an action against them as vendue masters, founded on the Act of the Legislature of 1815, to recover money due by them to the plaintiff, arising from sales made on account of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
JOHNSON, J.
This case has been submitted without argument, and it *, oho is sufficient to remark, so far as relates to the ^motion in arrest of J judgment, that it can only prevail in cases where error is apparent on the record, and none has been pointed out or alluded to in this case. It is presumable, therefore, that it found its way into the brief by mistake.
We are equally in the dark on the question made as to the constitutionality of the Act, and its application only to debts due at the time it was passed, and not to those which accrued afterwards.
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