Case Name: Ex Parte Verner
Court: Supreme Court of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1886-03-12
Citations: 24 S.C. 596
Docket Number: No. 1840
Parties: Ex Parte Verner,
Judges: (who sat in Mr. Justice McGowan’s seat),
Reporter: South Carolina Reports
Volume: 24
Pages: 596–596

Head Matter:
No. 1840.
Ex Parte Verner,
November Term, 1885.
March 12, 1886.
L. P. Verner, for appellant. W. O. Keith, J. J. Norton, contra.

Opinion:
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Eraser
(who sat in Mr. Justice McGowan's seat),
This case simply decides that the petitioner, having been charged, under the principles declared in Lay v. Lay (10 S. <?., 216), with one-sixth part of the note for slaves described in that case, and the amount of such sixth part having been ascertained and adjudged by a decree of the Circuit Court, from which no appeal was taken, the petitioner could not afterwards have such amount reduced because of a compromise subsequently entered into between the parties to that note. Judgment of court below (Witherspoon, J.) affirmed.