Blair v. Morgan
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Aldrich, J., Fairfield, March, 1900. Proceeding to enforce an agricultural lien by B. M. Blair against G. B. Morgan.
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Before Aldrich, J., Fairfield, March, 1900. Proceeding to enforce an agricultural lien by B. M. Blair against G. B. Morgan. From Circuit order refusing motion to vacate warrant of seizure, lienor appeals. cite: Affidavits must be Med within forty-eight hours: Rev. Stat., 2519; 46 S. C., 42; 50 S. C., 380; 32 S. C., 158. Courts have never strictly construed constitutional provisions that an act should relate to but one subject, and that should be expressed in its title: 16 S. C., 47; 18 S. C., 464; 19 S. C., 116; 23 S. C., 427; 30 s. C., 9; 31 S. C., 292; 39 S. C., 307. cites: Attachment and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Pope.
G. B. Morgan gave to B. M. Blair a lien on his crops to secure $500 advances made for agricultural purposes, and failed to pay such debt at maturity; but being about to dispose of his crops to defeat the lien of Blair, Blair applied to the clerk of the Circuit Court for Fairfield County for a warrant to enable the sheriff to seize the crops of G. B. Morgan to protect Blair’s lien for supplies. The warrant was issued on the 13th December, 1899, and the sheriff seized the crops on the 14th December, 1899, but the papers and the affidavit…
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