South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Where defendants’ compromise statements were erroneously admitted to prove the validity of the plaintiff’s claim for a commission on the sale of industrial property, and the error was not harmless, the defendants were entitled to a new trial. Background A ...

Even though the plaintiff-contractor now asserts that its work continued longer, it is bound by the dates asserted in its complaint and on the face of the mechanic’s lien it filed. Where the lien and complaint assert that the contractor ...

Where a real estate contract was expected to close in 2008 but did not close until 2017, a suit brought by an entity entitled to receive certain expenses at closing was timely as it was filed within three years of ...

A lease was not modified by a subsequent letter or estoppel certificate because neither document was signed by all parties and thus lacked mutual assent. Nor could subsequent conduct vary the unambiguous lease. Although the lease allowed the landlords to ...

The parties’ sublease agreement required the defendant-sublessor to return the plaintiff-sublessee’s deposit if plaintiff were unable to obtain the zoning changes and permits needed for plaintiff to install its business on the leased premises. Despite extending the agreement several times, ...

As part of her realty business, defendant self-financed mortgages for some of her customers, including the Wagners. When the Wagners could not make the balloon payment required by defendant’s loan to them, plaintiff lent the Wagners the $210,000 balance, which ...

As part of her realty business, defendant self-financed mortgages for some of her customers, including the Wagners. When the Wagners could not make the balloon payment required by defendant’s loan to them, plaintiff lent the Wagners the $210,000 balance, which ...

Where a multiyear software subscription contract was subject to an “appropriations” clause, and the record showed North Carolina’s Johnston County Board of Education decided not to appropriate money to the contract after the first year, the school board prevailed on ...

The refusal to enforce an Iraqi judgment because of concerns about the availability of discovery and motions in the Iraqi legal system was based on flawed analysis. The question to be considered is whether the defendant defaulted his right to ...

Plaintiff alleges that (1) the defendant-hospital billed her directly in breach of the contract between the hospital and plaintiff’s healthcare insurer and (2) the hospital billed her for more than the rates negotiated between the hospital and the insurer. Despite ...