Brown v. Moore
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Hudson, J., Spartanburg, September, 1886. The paper introduced by defendants to defeat the plaintiffs’ recovery was as follows : State oe South Carolina. \ Deed of Spartanburg District. J Conveyance.
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Before Hudson, J., Spartanburg, September, 1886. The paper introduced by defendants to defeat the plaintiffs’ recovery was as follows : State oe South Carolina. \ Deed of Spartanburg District. J Conveyance. Witnesseth that the said John McCarter hath this day deeded and conveyed unto the said Daniel Robertson and Joseph Brown, a certain tract of land, to each, one hundred and fifty-four acres, and to John M. Collins a certain tract of two hundred acres, all the land lying in the State and district aforesaid, upon his part, and the said-Daniel Robertson and Joseph Brown and John M. Collins do…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Chiee Justice Simpson.
The action below was brought to recover real estate in the possession of the defendants, and claimed to belong in fee to the plaintiffs. It is admitted that the land in dispute at one time belonged to one John McCarter, and *162the plaintiffs claim through á certain deed executed by the said McCarter in 1840, by which the land was conveyed to Sarah Brown, a daughter of McCarter, for life, and at her death to be equally divided between the heirs of her body, they being lineal descendents of the said Sarah. The defendants claimed…
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