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16 S.C.L. 267

Keckely v. Cummins

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Decided January 15, 1824

Supreme Court of South Carolina · decided 1824-01-15

Tíié plaintiff proved that the children of the defendant ¿entered his school, on the day of and continued to attend it one quarter and a part of another. The defendant offered to pay for the time the children were actually at school, but the plaintiffs contended that as the last days were part of a new quarter, they were entitled to be paid for the whole, and produced one Or two witnesses to that point, and the presiding judge ruled the custom a valid one.

Decided 1824-01-15

¶1The opinion of the court was delivered. by

Mr. Justice. Huger.

¶2The custom has long prevailed in this state of charging by the quarter, and I do not recollect any instance of its having been contested. The custom is a reasonable one and ought to fee supported.

¶3The motion must therefore be dismissed.

Mott, Colcock, and Johnson, Justices, concurred*.
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