Chalmers v. Jones

Citations

• 23 S.C. 463
• 1885 S.C. LEXIS 124

Syllabus

<p>1. Where the only contest is as to the proper inference to be drawn from facts not disputed, this court may more freely interfere with the findings by the Circuit Judge than where the truth of the facts is involved.</p> <p>2. The true meaning may be shown of the word “dollars” found in a contract entered into in 1864; and in this case the circumstances show that it was intended to denote Confederate dollars.</p> <p>3. A contract shown to have been entered into with reference to Confederate currency must be scaled under the Corbin act where there is no other testimony; but testimony of the comparative values of other property at the same time and place may be introduced to show the real purchasing value of such currency. .</p> <p>4. A lien for the purchase money under the act of 1791 attached only in cases of sale for partition of intestate’s estates.</p> <p>5. Where land was owned by two tenants in common, and one of them died intestate, after which, under a bill in equity, the land was sold for partition amongst the survivor and the distributees of the deceased, a lien attached for the payment of the purchase money, but only to the extent of the half interest of the intestate in the land.</p>