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6 S.C.L. 486

Mitchell v. Darracott

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Decided November 15, 1814

Supreme Court of South Carolina · decided 1814-11-15

Columbia, November Term, 1814. Case from Abbeville district. Constitutional Court of Appeals, Nov. 1814, Motion to reverse the decisions of the Circuit Court. This was an action of debt, on a bond given by the defendant and two others; to which the defend-pleatled in abatement, that the bond was a joint k°n(lj ami not joint and several; and that, therefore, all the obligors ought to have been sued.

Decided 1814-11-15

Bay, J.

¶1. I have no doubt, from the wording of this bond, but that it is a joint and several bond; *487and that the action was well brought. I am, therefore, of opinion that the judgment should be set aside, and that the cause should be restored to the docket for trial.

Justices Ngtt, Brevard- and G-rimke concurred.
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