Holmes v. Pickett
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Witherspoon, J., Charleston, April, 1897. Action in partition by Wm. E. Holmes, trustee, against M. P. Pickett, the heir at law and administrator of Eri H. Jackson, and the heirs at law of Agnes Chapeau.
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Before Witherspoon, J., Charleston, April, 1897. Action in partition by Wm. E. Holmes, trustee, against M. P. Pickett, the heir at law and administrator of Eri H. Jackson, and the heirs at law of Agnes Chapeau. The report of Master Sass states the facts as follows: I find the following facts: That Ada Clay, otherwise known as Ada Clark, late of Charleston, in the county and State aforesaid, died in 1886, leaving her last will and testament, which was duly admitted to probate on the 29th of November, 1886, wherein, inter alia, she devised as fol-laws (fully quoted in opinion). Edwin R. White…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice McIver.
This action was originally commenced by the plaintiff against Eri H. Jackson, M. P. Pickett, Agnes Chapeau, Robert Graham, and Robert' C. Graham, for a partition of certain real estate in the city of Charleston, to wit: a lot on Meeting street, described in the complaint, upon the theory that the plaintiff, as trustee, held the legal'title to one undivided fourth part of said lot, the said Agnes Chapeau one other undivided fourth part, and the said Eri H. Jackson the remaining two fourth parts of the said lot. The complaint…
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