Case ID: scl_18/html/0028-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per O’Neall J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Mazyck & Bell v. James M’Ewen. John M. Niolon v. William Drakeford.
    In each of these cases the defendants had, after judgment, made payments in the cause to the clerk of the Court ¡ Held, that his receipt was no discharge.
    The clerk has no official authority to receive money in civil cases, except where money is paid into Court: 1. Upon tender pleaded: 2. Where the party paying has obtained leave of the Court to do so. In all other cases he is the private agent of the party paying.
   Per O’Neall J.

on appeal from rules granted by Mr. Justice Johnson, at Kershaw, Fall Term, 1830,

Johnson J. and Harper J. concurred.