Supreme Court of South Carolina January 15, 1819 (of Price v. Young)

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Cheves, J.

It was contended, that the death of the maker having been proven, the fact dispensed with proof óf a demand, unless it had been proven by the defendant, that the maker had a legal representative. That to require proof of the plaintiff, that there was not a representative, was to require him to prove a negative.