Supreme Court of South Carolina April 15, 1807 (Carson v. Bryant's Administrators)

Waties, J.,

delivered the opinion of the whole court, Wilds, J., absent. This action, which has been invented in this State, as a substitute for the action of trover, is founded in tort, and does not survive against the personal representatives of the parly who .committed the injury, according to the determination in the case of Hambly v. Trott, Cowp.