Lawson v. Citizens & Southern National Bank Ex Rel. Will of Cleveland

Moss, Chief Justice:

In March, 1964, A. Elliott Lawson purchased two adjoining lots in a residential subdivision known as “Vanderbilt Hills” from Citizens & Southern National Bank of South Carolina, the appellant herein, as trustee under the will of R. B. Cleveland, deceased. Thereafter, he and his wife built a residence on said lots which they occupied for a time as a home. The husband and wife were divorced and the property was conveyed to her in partial discharge of the husband’s obligation to support her and the minor children of the marriage. About two years after the construction of the…