Case ID: sc_115/html/0515-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

10593.
    EX PARTE COLEMAN ET AL. PETITION OF WALLACE & BARRON ET AL.
    
    (106 S. E. 572)
    Interest — Interest Not Allowable on Judgment For Counsel Fees Not Entered. — Where a judgment for attorney’s fees was not entered and enrolled as the law provides, so as to make it a money judgment, and was not a decretal order upon which an execution could issue, interest may not be allowed theron.
    Before SeasE, J., Union.
    Reversed.
    Appeal from an order allowing interest on attorney's fees of AVallace & Barron and Geo. S. Mower fixed by decree of the Probate Court.
    For former appeals see: '' 106 S. C. 534; 111 S. C. 484.
    
      Mr. John Gary Bvcms, for appellant,
    cites: Attorneys’ fees do not bear interest .until reduced to judgment: 55 S. C- 322. Judgment must be, enrolled: Code Proc. 1912. Sec. 73; 1 Civ. Code. 1912, Sec. 2516. No execution could be issued: Code Proc. 1912, Sec. 75; 30 S- C. 421.. Judg.ment in Probate Court is entered'when inscribed on the abstract of judgments and enrolled: Code Proc. 1912, Sec. 74. Not adjudicated in former appeals: 111 S. C. 484.
    
      Messrs. Wallace & Barron, for resjpondents,
    cite: Decree of Judge Smith is res adjudícala: 1 Civ. Code 1912, Sec. 2516; 106 S- C: 541; 111 S. C. 486. Attorney’s fees drazo interest after entry of judgment: 55’ S. C. 316; 49 S. C. 525. " '
    March 22, 1921.
   The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice AVatts.

This is the third appeal in this cause. This is an appeal from an order of his Honor, Judge Sease, sustaining an order of Probate Judge A¥.' W. Johnson, wherein interest was allowed on attorneys’ fee, due to AVallace & Barron and Geo. S. Mower, Esqs. The exceptions must be sustained. There was no entry and enrollment of the judgment, as the law provides for, so to make it a money judgment. “A decretal order upon which an execution may be taken out is a final decree.” Haskell v. Raoul, 1 McCord, Eq. 32. “It must be a decree upon which an execution could be issued.” Ex parte Farrars in re Garrett v. Dial, 13 S. C. 254.

Exceptions sustained, and order appealed from reversed.