Wilson v. Jones

Gregory, Justice:

Respondent-appellant Ida J. Wilson brought this action seeking a partition of two tracts of land located in Charleston County. The circuit judge ruled, upon the Master’s recommendation, that appellants-respondents Wilhelmina Major, Paul Coakley, and Isaiah Coakley, the alleged illegitimate children of James Brown, Wilson’s cousin, were entitled to Brown’s share of the tracts of land. We reverse.

The master and the circuit judge found there was sufficient evidence that Major and the Coakleys were the illegitimate children of James Brown, and that, pursuant to Trimble v. Gordon,…