Screven Hose Co. v. Philpot

"Warner, Chief Justice.

The plaintiff sued the defendants for a breach of contract, alleging that the defendants, in consideration of the sum of $125 00, to be paid by plaintiff on demand, contracted and agreed with plaintiff to furnish for the use and convenience of plaintiff a certain steamboat, Rosa, the property of defendants, for one day, to-wit: the 29th July, 1873, for the purpose of an excursion to Bluffton, South Carolina, by the officers and members of plaintiff’s corporation, and friends; that defendants wilfully and maliciously refused to perform said contract» to the great damage…