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40 S.C.L. 319

Starnes v. Prince

Court of Appeals of South Carolina · decided 1853-05-15

Before Glover, J., at Union, Spring Term, 1853. The report of his Honor, the presiding Judge, is as follows: “ A. fieri facias had been entered in the sheriff’s office in this case, and at October Term, 1852, the following rule was issued against John Gibbs, sheriff, at the instance of Matthias Myers, the administrator of Richard Starnes, deceased : “ ‘ On motion of T. & J. Dawkins, attorneys for Matthias Myers, administrator of R. Starnes, it is ordered, that John Gibbs,…

Decided 1853-05-15

¶1The opinion of the Court was delivered by

O’Neall, J.

¶2In this case the Court is satisfied with the order made below.

¶3Looking to the record, alone, there is nothing to prevent the plaintiff’s rule from being made absolute. It is only when Wily J. Harris’s claim is interposed, that it becomes necessary to suspend the plaintiff’s rule and to inquire to whom does the execution belong.

¶4It is perfectly immaterial that the claim of Harris was presented to the Court, in October, by the sheriff, in his return to the rule, so far as Harris’s objection that he has been drafted” as a party is concerned. For he only had to disavow his interest in the execution, and then, he would have been absolved from all liability under the issue ordered; but he did not do so. This claim was again set up in opposition to the second rule, at the last Court.

¶5It was a favor to him, that he should be permitted, then, to take the place in the issue which had been offered to him before, and which he had failed to occupy.

¶6It may be that he had no notice of the order made, at the last October Court, before it was made. That, however, does not help him. For the issue was ordered to inform the Court, whether the facts stated by the sheriff were true. The order-permitted Harris to verify the facts, which the sheriff stated for him.

¶7If he was not served with the notice of the order to make up the issue, the Judge below, in giving him further time, obviated that objection.

¶8It is the party moving for an issue .that is required to enter *323into a consent rule to pay the costs. A defendant is never subjected to such terms.

¶9The motion is dismissed.

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

¶10Motion dismissed.

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