Duckett v. Butler
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Townsend, J., Clarendon, December, 1902. Action in partition by R. W. Duckett against William Moses Butler, Lila Y.'Butler, Minnie M. Thames, Martha A. Carter, Belle Butler, Lizzie C. Butler, Pressley Butler and Abe Butler. Prom Crcuit decree, plaintiff appeals. cite: Rule in Shelley's case is rule of lazw: 8 Rich. Eq., 9; 52 S. C., 554; 3 Hill, 193. Statute executed the use: 10 S. C., 389; 2 McC., 252; 1 Speer, 356; 4 Strob.
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Before Townsend, J., Clarendon, December, 1902. Action in partition by R. W. Duckett against William Moses Butler, Lila Y.'Butler, Minnie M. Thames, Martha A. Carter, Belle Butler, Lizzie C. Butler, Pressley Butler and Abe Butler. Prom Crcuit decree, plaintiff appeals. cite: Rule in Shelley's case is rule of lazw: 8 Rich. Eq., 9; 52 S. C., 554; 3 Hill, 193. Statute executed the use: 10 S. C., 389; 2 McC., 252; 1 Speer, 356; 4 Strob. Eq., 66; 11 S. C., 71; 12 S. C.., 711; 18 S. C., 186; 15 S. C., 135; 53 S. C„ 6; 20 S. E., 161. As to construction of the deed: 4 McC., 198; 15 S. C., 441; 17 S.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Jones.
The plaintiff brought this action for partition of land, and his complaint was dismissed upon demurrer for insufficiency, in that it failed to show that plaintiff had any interest in the land described. This appeal involves the correctness of Judge-Townsend’s construction of a deed of conveyance made in 1874 by Eliza T. Butler to William Moses Butler, “in trust for the sole, separate and exclusive benefit and behoof of Sarah Eliza Butler, daughter of the said William Moses Butler, for and during the term of her natural life, and at…
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