Case Name: John Hughes v. Wade Hampton
Court: Constitutional Court of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1815-11
Citations: 3 Brev. 544
Docket Number: 
Parties: John Hughes v. Wade Hampton.
Judges: Grimes, Nott, and Beevard, Js., concurred.
Reporter: South Carolina Law Reports
Volume: 5
Pages: 544–545

Head Matter:
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT, COLUMBIA,
NOV., 1815.
John Hughes v. Wade Hampton.
The charges in a physician’s bill must be specific, not loose and general.
Case for medical attendance, &c.

Opinion:
Smith, J.
The charges were general ones for medicine and attendance. One item was, " 13 dollars for medicine and attendance on one of the General's daughter's, in curing the whooping cough." The new trial is asked for, on the ground, that the plaintiff ought to have given a specific bill of the medicine and attendance. I did think otherwise, on hearing this case ; but on mature consideration, 1 think the charges were too general, and am, therefore, for granting a new trial.
Grimes, Nott, and Beevard, Js., concurred.
CoiiCOCK, and Bay, Js., dissented.