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9 S.C.L. 220

Story v. Perrin

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Decided May 15, 1818

Supreme Court of South Carolina · decided 1818-05-15

This was a summary process brought for the price of a seine against the administratrix of r _ . nT -111 James Pernn, deceased. It was proved, that the plaintiff was by occupation and calling a seine-maker, whose books were offered in evidence, but were rejected on the ground that he was not such a tradesman or handicraftsman as the law contemplates, whose books are allowed in evidence.

Decided 1818-05-15

¶1The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Gantt.

¶2Although for myself I am not able to draw any discrimination between this and the cases adjudged, of admitting tradesmen’s books; yet, independent of that evidence, the testimony offered by the plaintiff, that the defendant had received'the seine after the death of the intestate, *221and the notoriety of the fact, that supplies furnished by tradesmen at the plantation of Charles Pinckney, (whose overseer the intestate was,) " ^ # were never on his credit, together with the' picions which attach, that the testimony George Perrin did not comport with the merits and justice of the case, lead me to say that new trial should be granted.

Grimké, Colcock, Cheves, JYott, and Johnson, J. concurred.
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