Sams v. Port Royal & Augusta Railway Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Thomson, J., Beaufort, November, 1880. Action by Lewis R. Sams against the defendant corporation.. The opinion states the case. It does not appear that the Port Royal Railroad Company took any notice of the letter of W. R. Clautman, set out in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
McGowAN, A. J.
This case was heard in connection with that of William J. Verdier v. Port Royal R. R. Co., just decided, ante p. 476. The general questions are the same, only modified by a difference of one or two facts. In this case the plaintiff was the owner of the land prior to 1863, when the United States became seized, under the operation of. the direct tax acts of congress, and held the same until 1875, when the authorities of the government released the same to the plaintiff under the act of congress, June 8th, 1872. In 1870, while the land was…
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