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OWENS v. SWEAT

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227 S.C. 112 (1955)

86 S.E.2d 886

ELMORE L. OWENS, Respondent, v. LONNIE SWEAT, Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

April 14, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Hawkins & Bethea, of Dillon, and Woods & Woods, of Marion, for Appellant.

Messrs. Norton, Norton & Norton, of Marion, for Respondent.

Messrs. Hawkins & Bethea, of Dillon, and Woods & Woods, of Marion, for Appellant, in reply.

April 14, 1955.

STUKES, Justice.

The illiterate plaintiff in this action, now respondent, owned and operated for many years a farm in Marion County from which he derived a livelihood for himself and his wife. At above sixty years of age in 1947 he suffered a paralytic stroke which was diagnosed by the medical witness as cerebral arteriosclerosis, after which and because of his resulting incapacity his present wife managed and operated the farm. He had been...

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