Tumbleston v. Rumpel
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Fraser, J., Colleton, February, 1893. These were four actions against George Rumph, commenced in February, 1891, by Elizabeth Tumbleston, Ervin Seigler, Sarah Ann Reeves, and Joseph Hiott et at, respectively, to recover the value of improvements put upon lands severally recovered from them by the said George Rumph.
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Before Fraser, J., Colleton, February, 1893. These were four actions against George Rumph, commenced in February, 1891, by Elizabeth Tumbleston, Ervin Seigler, Sarah Ann Reeves, and Joseph Hiott et at, respectively, to recover the value of improvements put upon lands severally recovered from them by the said George Rumph. The order of the Circuit Judge was as follows: These cases were heard by me at the term of the court held in February, 1893, on demurrers, in that the complaints did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. In the first of the above cases, there is an…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Justioe Gaby.
These four cases were called for trial at the February (1893) term of the Court of Common Pleas for Colleton County, before his honor, T. B. Fraser, presiding judge. On the call of the cases, the defendant, through his attorneys, interposed an oral demurrer to each of the complaints, upon the grounds that the complaints did not allege facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The presiding judge took the papers away with him, and on the 30th of June, 1893, made an order sustaining the demurrer on this ground in each of the…
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