Supreme Court of South Carolina, 1815

Hughes v. Hampton

Hughes v. Hampton
Supreme Court of South Carolina · Decided November 15, 1815 · Bay, Brevard, Colcock, Grimke, Nott, Smith
7 S.C.L. 745

Hughes v. Hampton

Opinion of the Court

Smith, J.

The charges were general ones for medicine and attendance. One item was, u 13 dollars for medicine and attendance on one of the general’s ° daughters, in curing the whooping cough.” The new trial is asked for, on the ground that the plaintiff ought to have given a specific bill of the medicine and attendance. I did think otherwise on hearing this ease j but on mature consideration I think the char-*746Ses were too general, and am, therefore, for grant" ing a new trial.

Justices Grimke, Nott, and Brevard concurred. Colcock and Bay dissented.

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