Hammett v. Brown

Citations

• 44 S.C. 397

Syllabus

<p>1. Receipt — Note—Case Ceiticised. — Where a child signs a -written acknowledgment of an advance to her by her father of a certain sum of money, for which she is to pay interest annually during her father’s lifetime, the trial judge did not err in ruling that the paper was a note, and that it matured at the date of the father’s death, was payable to his estate, and that the amount due thereon was the sum advanced with interest from the father’s death. Hammett v. Hammett, 38 S. 0., 50.</p> <p>2. Charging Juries — Appeal Record. — Error cannot be declared in the failure to charge what is not shown to have been requested.</p>