Sires v. Sires
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Fraser, J., Colleton, February, 1893. Action by Thaddeus W. Sires and others against Samuel W. Sires and others, commenced in August, 1891. The. Circuit decree was as follows: This case was heard by me at the term of the court held in February, 1893, on the pleadings and testimony taken before me in open court.
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Before Fraser, J., Colleton, February, 1893. Action by Thaddeus W. Sires and others against Samuel W. Sires and others, commenced in August, 1891. The. Circuit decree was as follows: This case was heard by me at the term of the court held in February, 1893, on the pleadings and testimony taken before me in open court. The action has been brought to cancel a deed, the proper execution of which is, however, .not admitted in the complaint, purporting to have been executed by Martha M. Sires, the widow and executrix of Peter J. Sires, deceased, and conveying to Samuel W. Sires, one of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Gary.
This action was commenced in the Court of Common Pleas for Colleton County for the purpose of cancelling a deed of Martha M. Sires, dated August 12, 1878, *270upon the ground that said' deed is fraudulent and void, having been executed, as it was alleged, for the purpose of defeating a trust claimed to have been created by the last will and testament of Peter J. Sires, and that the same was a cloud upon the title of the complainants to a certain tract of land described in the complaint. The complaint alleges that the title to the land in…
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