Legal Opinion · Dissent

Klapman v. Hook

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Decided January 25, 1945No. 15706Published

1DissentChief Justice Baker

This was an action of trespass to try title, and was tried in the Court of Common Pleas for Lexington County before Honorable G. Duncan Bellinger, Presiding Judge, and a jury, resulting in a verdict for the respondents.

The appellant and the respondents acquired their respective titles from a' common source on the same day, to wit, November 1, 1907, and from a common source when the executors of the will of S. Walter Hook sold the estate lands of the said S. Walter Hook. The sale was made at public auction on the premises.

Prior to the sale a surveyor had been employed by the executors…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Ouzts v. McKnightSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1920
  2. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. BakerSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1927

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