Case Name: UNION SAVINGS BANK v. HUBBARD
Court: Supreme Court of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1927-01-31
Citations: 138 S.C. 328
Docket Number: 12150
Parties: UNION SAVINGS BANK v. HUBBARD
Judges: Messrs. Justices Cothran, Blease, and Stabler, and Mr. Acting Associate Justice R. O. Purdy concur.
Reporter: South Carolina Reports
Volume: 138
Pages: 328–329

Head Matter:
12150
UNION SAVINGS BANK v. HUBBARD
(136 S. E., 481)
December, 1925.
Mr. N. W. Edens for appellant
Mr. J. K. Owens for respondent
January 31, 1927.

Opinion:
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice Watts.
The exceptions and grounds .of appeal question the correctness of the rulings of Judge Henry in dismissing the answer .of appellant on the ground that it was sham, irrelevant, and does not constitute a defense. The answer pleads failure of consideration, and that was an issue that appellant was entitled to have submitted to a jury.
This Court has decided in several cases that to decide an issue of fact on affidavits in most cases is unsatisfactory.
Here we have an issue of fact raised by the pleadings decided by his Honor, on most conflicting affidavits.
His Honor was in error, and the order appealed from is reversed.
Messrs. Justices Cothran, Blease, and Stabler, and Mr. Acting Associate Justice R. O. Purdy concur.