In Re Estate of Permelia Bugg
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Watts, J., Richland, Petition by Ella Bugg Jones et al. in proceeding byM. R. Cooper, secretary of State, to escheat property of Permelia Bugg, to set aside judgment and permit them to file exceptions to master’s report. From order refusing petition, petitioners appeal. cites: Motion in case is proper remedy: 34 S. C., 459 ; 17 Ency., 2 ed., 825; 6 Rich.
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Before Watts, J., Richland, Petition by Ella Bugg Jones et al. in proceeding byM. R. Cooper, secretary of State, to escheat property of Permelia Bugg, to set aside judgment and permit them to file exceptions to master’s report. From order refusing petition, petitioners appeal. cites: Motion in case is proper remedy: 34 S. C., 459 ; 17 Ency., 2 ed., 825; 6 Rich. Li, 487; 22 S. C., 257; 50 S. C., 491; 1 Black on Judg., 265. Court was zmthout jurisdiction to• make tire final judgment: 1 Black on Jud., secs. 171, 215, 241, 242; 34 N. J. Eq., 418; 10 At. R., 385 ; 20 Ohio St., 142; 43 Mo., 502; 4…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Woods.
The questions to be determined in this appeal arise under a petition of Ella Bugg Jones, Hannah H. Bugg, Rydia Jane Bugg and James W, Bugg to the Circuit Court to- set aside the decree rendered in the cause on the grounds: (1) that the Court had no jurisdiction to render it, and (2) if the Court did have jurisdiction, the petitioners should be relieved from it because their failure to except to the report of the master confirmed by the decree was due to oversight or excusable neglect on the part of their attorneys. To make the issues…
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