Opinion
7195
May 20, 1909.
Before DeVORE, J., Lexington, June, 1908. Affirmed.
Action by Walter C. Duncan against E. Jones Company. From order overruling demurrer, defendant appeals.
Messrs. E.L. Asbill and Graham Sturkie, for appellant, cite: Two or more causes of action should not be stated together: 35 S.C. 475, 501; 37 S.C. 199; sec. 186a, Code of Procedure, does not permit jumbling together of causes of action for malicious prosecution, false arrest, and assault and battery: 81 S.C. 320; 73 S.C. 271. Demurrer proper remedy: Sec. 165, sub. 5, Code of Proc.; 9 S.C. 277; 13 S.C. 317; 24 S.C. 39; 47 S.C. 211; 70 S.C. 89.
Messrs. Efird Dreher, contra, cite: Demurrer not remedy: Code of Proc., 188; 24 S.C. 39; 68 S.C. 257.
May 20, 1909. The opinion of the Court was delivered by
This is an appeal from an order, overruling a demurrer to the complaint, on the ground that several causes of action, have been improperly united.
His Honor, the presiding Judge, ordered "that the demurrer be overruled, for the reason that the complaint, appears to state several causes of action, jumbled in one."
The allegations are set forth, in form as a single cause of action, and the ruling of the Circuit Judge is sustained by the case of Marion v. Charleston, 68 S.C. 257, 47 S.E., 140.
Appeal dismissed.