Hill v. Watson
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before NORTHROP, J., at Newberry, October, 1876. This was a motion to vacate an order confirming a report of a Referee made in 1869 in the case of John L. Hill and others against Joseph Watson as administrator of Thomas Watson, deceased, and others.
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Before NORTHROP, J., at Newberry, October, 1876. This was a motion to vacate an order confirming a report of a Referee made in 1869 in the case of John L. Hill and others against Joseph Watson as administrator of Thomas Watson, deceased, and others. The case will be fully understood from the judgment of His Honor the presiding Judge, which is as follows: Northrop, J. To correctly apprehend the motion now under consideration, it may not be amiss to repeat, somewhat in their chronological order, the events which enter to make up the history of this action. The plaintiffs exhibited their bill in…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Haskell, A. J.
In this cause a final order was set aside by the Circuit Judge, after the lapse of considerable' time, on motion, upon the ground that the order was erroneous in law. The authority for such proceeding relied on by the Circuit Judge is the Act of 1869, p. 214, re-enacted in the General Statutes, (Rev. Stat., 497): “In case a judgment or decree has been or hereafter shall be rendered by a Court of Common Pleas or Equity, it shall be lawful for either party, plaintiff or defendant, to move before the presiding Judge of the circuit in which…
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