Case Name: Levy and Roberts
Court: Constitutional Court of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1821-05
Citations: 1 McCord 395
Docket Number: 
Parties: Levy and Roberts.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Carolina Law Reports
Volume: 12
Pages: 395–395

Head Matter:
Levy and Roberts.

Opinion:
The defendant, paying money over to the sheriff, on an execution, cannot be considered as paying it voluntarily ; and if improperly paid, the sheriff, upon a rule may be ordered to pay it back.
Where the plaintiff's demand has been reduced by actual payments, to a sum within the Summary Process jurisdiction, he must proceed by way of Summary Process for the balance ; and if he bring his action for the Vkhole, he can recover only the costs of a Summary Process. But it is otherwise where there are mutual demands, and the plaintiff's debt is reduced by discount; because he may not know the amount of the defendant's demand; neither can he know that he will avail himself of such defence.