Mobley Co. v. McLucas

Decision Date24 September 1914
Docket Number8945.
Citation82 S.E. 986,99 S.C. 99
PartiesMOBLEY CO. v. MCLUCAS ET AL.
CourtSouth Carolina Supreme Court

Appeal from General Sessions Circuit Court of Marlboro County; T. H. Spain, Judge.

"To be officially reported."

Suit by the Mobley Company against R. M. McLucas and another. From an order directing a compulsory reference, defendants appeal. Dismissed.

Townsend & Rogers and J. K. Owens, all of Bennettsville, for appellants.

Gibson, Muller & Tison, of Dillon, for respondent.

GARY, C.J.

This is an appeal from an order of reference, which, the appellants contend, deprived them of a mode of trial to which they were entitled by law, to wit, a trial by jury.

The action is to foreclose a mortgage of certain lands, which was executed by the defendant R. M. McLucas to secure the payment of a promissory note, made by the defendants in favor of the plaintiff in consideration of fertilizers, which the plaintiff agreed to advance to the defendant R. M. McLucas, for agricultural purposes.

The defendants answered the complaint, setting up failure of consideration, and, by way of affirmative relief, interposing a counterclaim for damages, alleged to have been sustained by the defendants on account of the plaintiff's failure to perform its part of the contract.

The following authorities show that the appeal should be dismissed: McLaurin v. Hodges, 43 S.C. 187, 20 S.E. 991; Hunt v. Nolen, 46 S.C. 551, 24 S.E. 543; Hardware Co. v. Washington, 47 S.C. 187, 25 S.E. 45; McCullough v. Kirvin, 49 S.C. 445, 27 S.E. 456; Insurance Ass'n v. Berry, 53 S.C. 129, 31 S.E. 53; Gregory v. Perry, 66 S.C. 455, 45 S.E. 4; Ex parte Landrum, 69 S.C. 136, 48 S.E. 47; Pratt v. Timmerman, 69 S.C. 186, 48 S.E. 255; Engine Co. v. Lodge, 73 S.C. 533, 53 S.E. 993; Shute v. Shute, 79 S.C. 420, 60 S.E. 961; Machinery Co. v. Hamilton, 89 S.C. 438, 71 S.E. 1029; Welborn v. Cobb, 92 S.C. 384, 75 S.E. 691.

Appeal dismissed.

HYDRICK, WATTS, FRASER, and GAGE, JJ., concur.

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