Case Name: BANK OF DILLON v. ADAMS ET AL.
Court: Supreme Court of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1923-06-12
Citations: 125 S.C. 210
Docket Number: 11253
Parties: BANK OF DILLON v. ADAMS ET AL.
Judges: Mr. Justice Fraser concurs.
Reporter: South Carolina Reports
Volume: 125
Pages: 210–214

Head Matter:
11253
BANK OF DILLON v. ADAMS ET AL.
(118 S. E. 417)
Venue — Defendants Residing in Different Counties, Circuit Court of Either Counts’ has Jurisdiction of Action on Note.- — -Maker and accommodation indorser of a note were residents of Marlboro county. Subsequent indorsees who were residents of Dillon county sold the note to plaintiff, Bank of Dillon, executing a guaranty of payment on separate paper. The complaint stated a cause of action against maker and indorser and a cause of action against guarantors. Held, in the absence of a demurrer for improper joinder of causes of action, under Code Civ. Proc. 1912, §§ 174, 198, the Circuit Court of either county had jurisdiction, in view of Section 218.
Before Henry Buck, Special Judge, Dillon, October,-1922.
Affirmed.
Action-by The Bank of Dillon against Mrs. John Adams, Mrs. J. A. Stanton, Sr., et al. From an order refusing to- dismiss the action as to Mrs. Stanton and to grant a change of venue, said defendant appeals.
Messrs. McColl & Stevenson, for appellant,
cite: Plea to the jurisdiction was proper: 108 S. C., 148. Suit against parties severally liable in the same action: Code Proc. 1912, 'Sec. 169; 25 Ann. Cas, 1200; 20 R. C. B, 677; 15 Enc. PL & Pr. 547; 9 Iowa, 331; 14 Enc. PL- & Pr, 451; 20 Cyc, 1484; 9 Cyc, 653; 30 Cyc, 221; Rice L, 162. Where suit is in wrong county immaterial if answer has been filed: 74 S. C, 438; 110 S. C, 334; 80 S. C, 491; 112 S. C, 128.
Messrs. Gibson & Muller, for respondent,
cite: Parties liable as guarantors can be joined in same suit: 8 C. J, 71; 28 C. J, 914; 12 R. C. D, 1072; 1089; Code Proc. 1912, Sec. 218; 48 S. C, 65. Answer to the merits waives claim against jurisdiction: 46 S- C, 9; 69 S. C, 278.
June 12, 1923.
On petition for rehearing July 20, 1923.

Opinion:
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Watts.
This is an appeal from an order of Judge Henry Buck, Special Judge, refusing a motion to dismiss the action as to Mrs. J. A. Stanton, Sr, because the Court of Common Pleas for Dillon County had no jurisdiction of the subject matter nor of her person, and upon failure to obtain such dismissal to transfer the Cause to Marlboro County for trial; she being a resident of that County. The affidavit of Mrs. John Adams, one of the defendants, states that all of the defendants at the commencement of the action were residants of Marlboro County, except J. W. Moore and R. S. Moore.
The exceptions, four in number, challenge the correctness'of his Honor's ruling and seek reversal. The exceptions must be overruled under Section 218, Code of Civil Procedure, which gives the right to unite in the same complaint all causes of action growing out of the same transaction or transactions, connected with the same subject of action.
The one obligation in the entire suit is that to pay the plaintiff, the legal holder and owner of the notes, the amount due thereon, and it unquestionably has the right to collect out of the makers, indorsers, or guarantors. They are all liable upon the same obligations, to wit, the notes sued on; and- no doubt the object of the act was to prevent a multiplicity of suits. To hold otherwise would be to defeat the purpose of the provision.
Order appealed from affirmed.
Mr. Justice Fraser concurs.
Messrs. Justices Cothran and Marion concur in result.
Mr. Chiee Justice-Gary did not sit.