57 S.C. 459 | S.C. | 1900
Lead Opinion
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
It is the judgment of this Court, that the order of the Circuit Court be reversed, and the case remanded to that Court for a new trial.
Dissenting Opinion
dissenting. I cannot concur in the conclusion reached in the foregoing opinion, because the bond sued upon (a copy of which is set out in the “Case” as a part of the complaint) is so essentially different from that required by the statute that no action can be maintained upon it as a statutory bond; and there being no allegations in the complaint that the bond sued upon is a common law obligation, there was no error in sustaining the demurrer. Booker v. Smith, 38 S. C., 228. Without going into the matter fully, which want of time forbids, I propose simply to indicate certain of the particulars in which the bond sued upon is not only essentially different from but are absolutely subversive of the real object of the bond prescribed by the