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39 S.C.L. 10

Fant v. Gadberry

Court of Appeals of South Carolina

Decided November 15, 1851

Court of Appeals of South Carolina · decided 1851-11-15

Before O’Neall, J. at Union, Fall Term, 1851. The plaintiff declared upon a note made by James M. Gad-berry. The declaration also contained one of the common money counts. The note offered in evidence was signed 4 Gadber-ry and Fant.’ It was proved that there was no such firm, and that the defendant made the note. It was objected that the allegata and probata did not correspond. A motion for nonsuit was sustained on that ground.

Decided 1851-11-15

Curia, per O’Neale, J.

¶1In this case the plaintiff described the note as the note of J. M. Gadberry. To support that allegation, he offered in evidence the note of Gadberry & Fant. The variance is plain and fatal.

¶2It is very true, if he had given a proper description of the note, such as is suggested in the report, and had followed it up by proof that there was no such firm as Gadberry &. Fant, and that Gadberry signed the note, in the names of parties who could not be liable, he (Gadberry) would have thus been made liable himself.

¶3There was no proof to sustain the money count. There was nothing to shew that its consideration was received by the defendant. So, too, conceding to the plaintiff, that the note is the evidence, by the -words “ value received,” of so much money received to the use of the plaintiff: — yet looking to the note alone, it is the evidence of the receipt of that much by Gadber-ry & Fant.

¶4The motion to amend was properly overruled by the Court. Such a motion can very rarely be allowed at the trial term. Certainly it is generally improper, when the case is on trial, and much -more so, when a motion for nonsuit is made, argued and decided, and nothing remains but to enter it.

¶5The motion is dismissed.

Evans, Wardlaw, Frost, Withers and Whitner, JJ. concurred.

¶6Motion dismissed.

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