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5 S.C.L. 305

Thompson v. Lindsay

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Decided December 15, 1812

Supreme Court of South Carolina · decided 1812-12-15

Motion to set aside a decree given on summary process, by Nott, J., in Pendleton district. The action was on a promissory note of hand, given for a certain quantity of tobacco, contained in a hogs, head, supposed to weight 1200 lbs. There was a memorandum on the note, that defendant took the tobacco at his own risk.

Decided 1812-12-15

Bkevard, J.

¶1This motion, in my opinion, ought to be refused. It was expressly stipulated in the contract, that the defendant was to take the tobacco at his own risk.

¶2There was no undoubted evidence that he was induced to consent to the stipulation by any fraudulent concealment, or misrepresentation on the part of the plaintiff. The judge who decreed for the plaintiff, it being a case within the summary jurisdiction of the court, no doubt, took proper notice of the evidence to this point, and gave it due consideration, although he wasjDf opinion that fraud was not a proper subject of discount.

¶3The plaintiff requested the defendant to examine the tobacco, and judge for himself. It was his own folly to take it at his own risk, upon the mere opinion of the plaintiff, that it was all as good as that which was seen at the end of the hogshead, without further inspection and examination.

¶4The defendant ought not to be permitted to take advantage of his own laches.

Bay, J.

¶5It is a well established rule of law, that a sound price requires a sound commodity. But if a man with his eyes open, and well aware of this rule of law, will go and make a bargain, and buy an article at all risks, he has himself to blame, and must take the consequences, I am against opening the decree.

The other judges gave similar opinions.
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