Bredenberg v. Landrum
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Wallace, J., Aiken, March, 1889. This appeal was from the following decree: In the year 1873, Thomas H. Meyer made notes to Mrs. M. L. Nail, Mrs. E. M. Hull, Mrs. F. C. McWhorter, and to C. C. Meyer, the sum of which, when aggregated, amounted to nearly four thousand dollars; separate notes given to each for the sum due to each.
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Before Wallace, J., Aiken, March, 1889. This appeal was from the following decree: In the year 1873, Thomas H. Meyer made notes to Mrs. M. L. Nail, Mrs. E. M. Hull, Mrs. F. C. McWhorter, and to C. C. Meyer, the sum of which, when aggregated, amounted to nearly four thousand dollars; separate notes given to each for the sum due to each. To secure each and all of these creditors T. H. Meyer executed a mortgage on the same day to C. C. Meyer on a tract of land in Aiken County, and for an amount equal to the sum of all the debts secured. This mortgage was duly recorded. In 1880 and 1881, and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Justice McGowan.
This was a proceeding, on- the part of junior judgment creditors of a mortgagor, to set aside a sale of the mortgaged premises made by the mortgagee, C. C. Meyer, for himself and other creditors, at which sale he bid off the land, and, as mortgagee, conveyed it to himself; and to have declared void a subsequent deed executed by him, as such purchaser, to the defendant, George R. Landrum, who advanced $3,000 to the mortgagees on the security of the land, and had the original mortgage delivered to him. The facts are somewhat…
2Cited by1 opinion
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