Cothran v. Knight
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Action in claim and delivery by J. R. Cothran against J. E. Knight and Robert Coker. The following is the charge of the Circuit Judge: The plaintiff, J. R. Cothran, brings this action against J. E. Knight and Robert Coker, the defendants, claiming that they are in possession of 2,880 pounds of seed cotton and twenty-two bushels of cotton seed, and that they are wrongfully in possession of it and withholding it from him, and the reason he alleges is that he received a summons…
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Action in claim and delivery by J. R. Cothran against J. E. Knight and Robert Coker. The following is the charge of the Circuit Judge: The plaintiff, J. R. Cothran, brings this action against J. E. Knight and Robert Coker, the defendants, claiming that they are in possession of 2,880 pounds of seed cotton and twenty-two bushels of cotton seed, and that they are wrongfully in possession of it and withholding it from him, and the reason he alleges is that he received a summons requiring him to appear before ’Squire Scott to answer to the complaint for $64; and that the summons was issued that…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Pope.
This, action was instituted on the 29th day of November, 1893, for the recovery of the possession of personal property and damages for the unlawful detention thereof. It has been in this Court once before. Knight et al. v. Cothran, 45 S. C. It came on for a trial, the second time, in the Court of Common Pleas for Green-ville County, in this State, before Judge Benet and a jury, at the November, 1895, term of Court. Verdict was rendered for defendant. After judgment was rendered thereon, an appeal was taken to this Court. The charge of…
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