Carolina Savings Bank v. Ellis

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. W. C. Cothran, Acting Associate Justice.

This is a most interesting case, and the reading of the voluminous record, the study of the various exhibits, together with the closest attention to the briefs of counsel, create a most vivid story of human interest.

The suit was brought by the bank, as executor, as an equitable proceeding to obtain instructions from the Court as to the distribution of the estate of John Richardson Campbell of Charleston, who died testate. It is with considerable difficulty that we refrain from writing a full story of this…