Case Name: Leroy Bussey ads. B. Whittaker
Court: Constitutional Court of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1820-05
Citations: 2 Nott & McC. 374
Docket Number: 
Parties: *Leroy Bussey ads. B. Whittaker.
Judges: Colcock, Gantt, Johnson, Richardson and HugeR, JJ., concurred.
Reporter: South Carolina Law Reports
Volume: 11
Pages: 597–598

Head Matter:
*Leroy Bussey ads. B. Whittaker.
Where the maker of a promissory note had made his mark to it, and the subscribing witness was out of the State, proof of the handwriting of the subscribing witness was held sufficient.

Opinion:
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Nott, J.
This was a summary process on a promissory note, tried before me, at Edgefield, Spring Term, 1820.
The defendant made Ms mark, and the subscribing witness was out of the State. The only evidence of the execution of the note was proof of the handwriting of the subscribing witness. I thought that it had been held in this State, that such evidence was sufficient, and therefore gave a decree for the plaintiff.
Jeter, for the motion. Glascock, contra.
This was a motion to set aside that decree, and to grant a nonsuit. But the Court are unanimously of opinion that the decree is in conformity with the decisions which have heretofore taken place in this Court on the same question, and that the motion must, therefore, be refused.
Colcock, Gantt, Johnson, Richardson and HugeR, JJ., concurred.
11 Rich. 321; 3 McC. 221, note.