Legal Opinion

Ex parte Howlett v. Garner

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Decided July 12, 1897PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Before WATTS, J., Darlington, May, 1896. Petition of A. A. Howlett v. J. S. Garner, In re A. A. Howlett v. The Central Carolina Rand and Improvement Company. The following is the Circuit decree: The preliminary facts, so far as necessary to state in this proceeding, are as follows: On March 16th, 1891, a judgment of foreclosure and sale in the usual form was granted in the action.

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Before WATTS, J., Darlington, May, 1896. Petition of A. A. Howlett v. J. S. Garner, In re A. A. Howlett v. The Central Carolina Rand and Improvement Company. The following is the Circuit decree: The preliminary facts, so far as necessary to state in this proceeding, are as follows: On March 16th, 1891, a judgment of foreclosure and sale in the usual form was granted in the action. The sheriff of Darlington County, after due advertisement, offered the property for sale on the first Monday in January, 1892. Besides a large tract of land, the mortgaged premises consisted of ten lots, recently…

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Jones.

Under a decree in the principal cause above stated, the sheriff of Darlington County, on January 2d, 1893, sold at public auction a number of lots in the town of Darlington. Among these lots were lot No. 1, which may be called the “railroad lot,” containing the depot of the C., S. & N. R. R. Co., and lot No. 10, called the “Mooney lot,” containing several tenement houses. The railroad lot, No, 1, was sold to perfect title. The Mooney lot, No. 10, was considered valuable, by reason of the tenement houses. The two lots differed very…

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