Bleckeley v. Branyan
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Hudson, J., Abbeville, October, 1886. This was an action by Bleckeley, Brown & Fretwell against D. S. Branyan and others. -The appeal was from the following decree: Upon the foregoing statement of facts, I am of the opinion that the plaintiffs are entitled to the relief prayed for.
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Before Hudson, J., Abbeville, October, 1886. This was an action by Bleckeley, Brown & Fretwell against D. S. Branyan and others. -The appeal was from the following decree: Upon the foregoing statement of facts, I am of the opinion that the plaintiffs are entitled to the relief prayed for. It is very clear that it was not the intention of the parties that the legal and equitable title should merge in the plaintiffs, so as to open the way for the enforcement of intervening liens. The contemporaneous instrument of writing guaranteeing that no such intervening liens existed, forms a part of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Justice McGowan.
At the February term of the court for Abbeville in 1885, Sarah J. Martin, as administratrix, and A. T. Armstrong, each recovered judgment against their co-defendant, D. S. Branyan. Under the executions in these cases the sheriff levied on 200 acres of land as the property of Branyan, the defendant in execution, and was about to sell the same on salesday of December of that year, when the plaintiffs commenced this action to enjoin the sale, upon the ground that the land levied on was not the property of the defendant, Branyan ; and…
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