Calhoun v. Calhoun
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Befoue JOHNSON, On., at Pickens, July, 1866. Appeal by defendants from the Circuit decree. The evidence was nearly all in writing, and the facts of the case, which were few and simple, are fully stated in the decree, which is as follows: JOHNSON, Ch. On the 13th day of May, 1854, Floride Calhoun and her daughter, Cornelia M. Calhoun, sold and conveyed to Andrew P. Calhoun the Fort Hill plantation, in Pickens District, containing eleven hundred and ten acres, fifty negro…
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Befoue JOHNSON, On., at Pickens, July, 1866. Appeal by defendants from the Circuit decree. The evidence was nearly all in writing, and the facts of the case, which were few and simple, are fully stated in the decree, which is as follows: JOHNSON, Ch. On the 13th day of May, 1854, Floride Calhoun and her daughter, Cornelia M. Calhoun, sold and conveyed to Andrew P. Calhoun the Fort Hill plantation, in Pickens District, containing eleven hundred and ten acres, fifty negro slaves, and all the personal property on the plantation, with certain specified exceptions, for the sum of forty-nine…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Moses, C. J.
The case before us is of interest to the' community, from the large amount of debt which will be affected by its decision. TVe are impressed with its consequence, not only because our judgment will act upon pecuniary obligations of a great magnitude, but because important constitutional issues are necessarily involved in it.
No more delicate duty can be imposed upon a judicial tribunal than that which requires it to discuss questions in which the action *292of'those from whom it derives its own authority is to be' reviewed, particularly where…
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