McGee v. Hall
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Witherspoon, J., Anderson, February, 1886. Upon the return of this case to the Circuit Court under the order of this court (23 S. G., 388), a jury trial of the legal issue raised by defendant was waived, and the cause was heard by the Circuit Judge without a jury, on the pleadings and testimony taken and reported by the master. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Chiee Justice Simpson.
David Hall died testate in 1860. In the 3rd clause of his will he devised two tracts of land containing seven hundred and eighty-four acres, piore or less, to his three youngest sons, Absalom J. Hall, John M. Hall, and William C. Hall, as follows, to wit: “To be divided equally between them in value, the issue of any of my sons who may be dead to take the share of the parent, and if either of them should die without issue at his death, then his or their shares in said land to go to the surviving brothers or their issue as…
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