Case Name: Cuthbert Price, Executor, vs. Samuel Price
Court: South Carolina Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1841-05
Citations: 1 McMul. 291
Docket Number: 
Parties: Cuthbert Price, Executor, vs. Samuel Price.
Judges: The whole Court concurred.
Reporter: South Carolina Law Reports
Volume: 26
Pages: 190–191

Head Matter:
Cuthbert Price, Executor, vs. Samuel Price.
Where a general demurrer has been overruled, the adverse party have the right to enter up judgment on the matter in controversy, unless the demurring party obtain-special leave to plead over at the time the demurrer is overruled.
Before Butler, J., at Chester, Spring Term, 1841
The plaintiff in this case had filed a general demurrer to the defendant’s special plea, which admitted all that was stated in it, The Court of Appeals, on a former trial of this case, overruled the demurrer, and the Circuit Court gave the defendant leave to enter up judgment on the plea; from which the plaintiff appeals.
GROUNDS of appeal.
1. That the plaintiff had, under the circumstances of the case, a legal right to reply to the defendant’s ple.a of former recovery.
2. Because the plaintiff should have been permitted to go to trial, he having' moved for leave so to do after the Court had refused plaintiff leave to reply to the defendant’s demurrer sustained, as plaintiff contends he can recover in the case, even admitting the demurrer to defendant’s plea is permitted to stand, or rather, is overruled.

Opinion:
Curia, per
Butler, J.
On a former occasion it was decided by this Court, that defendant's plea was an entire bar to plaintiff's action. Judge Earle, who delivered the opinion of the Court, makes this remark: " But whatever may be the effect of the record, when exhibited to the Court, in support of the plea, it is considered here, that there is enough on the face of the plea itself, to constitute a good bar, if it be verified by the record." We think that by the terms of the plea, which were admitted by the demurrer, the plaintiff was precluded from giving evidence to contradict it. He must be bound by his admission on the record; and the defendant's plea being admitted by demurrer, he was not bound to verify it by evidence. We will not say that plaintiff might not have obtained leave from the Court of Appeals, before its judgment was finally delivered, to withdraw his demurrer, with leave to reply to defendant's plea. He made no such motion to the Court, *when it had the case under consideration, and the Circuit Judge was bound to make the decision, from which the plaintiff has appealed on this occasion. Where a general demurrer is overruled, the adverse party has a right to enter up judgment on the matter in controversy, unless the demurring party obtains special leave to plead over at the time the demurrer is overruled. Motion dismissed.
See 7 Rich. 432. 5 Stob. 157. 1 N. & McC. 88, 108. 2 McM. 292, and cases in note there. Smith vs. Singleton, Charleston, February, 1852.
Thomson and Eaves, for the motion. B. G. Mills, contra.
The whole Court concurred.