Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Mercer
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Decided October 31, 1924No. 11594PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
October 31, 1924. The opinion of the Court was delivered by On the 2d day of March, 1922, the defendant, C.D. Merritt, entered into an agreement with the petitioner, Samuel Mercer, by which the former agreed to sell to the latter a lot of land in Charleston, for an agreed consideration which the plaintiff was to pay in installments. This contract of sale has, however, never been recorded. Mercer has since said date paid most, if not all, of the agreed purchase price, and has built a house on the lot in question. On the 31st day of October, 1917, Merritt executed and delivered a mortgage…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Knobelock v. Germania Savings BankSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1897
- Akers v. RowanSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1890
- Murray Drug Co. v. HarrisSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1907
- Rapley v. KlughSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1893
- Marion County Lumber Corp. v. WhippleSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1921
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Crystal Ice Co. of Cola. v. First Colonial Corp.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1979
- Eskew v. Life Ins. Co. of VirginiaSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1939
- Long Manufacturing Co. v. Manning Tractor Co.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1956
- Crook v. State Farm Mutual Automobile InsuranceSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1957
- Medical Society of S.C. v. HugerSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1937
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