Kennemore v. Kennemore
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Hudson, J., Pickens, September, 1886. This was an action for partition and account. The plaintiffs were the heirs at law of Moses Kennemore, and the defendants, together with Moses Kennemore, were the heirs at law of George Kennemore. The point at issue was the shares of the parties, dependent upon whether Moses, by partition .made in his life-time, had parted with his interest in the land, the subject of the action.
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Before Hudson, J., Pickens, September, 1886. This was an action for partition and account. The plaintiffs were the heirs at law of Moses Kennemore, and the defendants, together with Moses Kennemore, were the heirs at law of George Kennemore. The point at issue was the shares of the parties, dependent upon whether Moses, by partition .made in his life-time, had parted with his interest in the land, the subject of the action. The evidence of this partition is stated in the opinion, .and in the “Brief” appears an admission, “that the deeds referred to in book ‘I,’ pages 147 and 148, are two…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
M.r. Justice McGowan.
In 1859, Lott Kennemore sold and conveyed to his two sons, Moses and George, a tract of land by metes and bounds, containing 225 acres, with a reservation in favor of himself and wife, Rebecca, during their lives. Moses and George both died in 1864, during the war — George intestate and unmarried, leaving his father and brothers and sisters as his heirs at law. Moses, soon after the deed aforesaid, removed to Georgia, and he left as his heirs at law a widow and children. After the death of George, the father, Lott Kennemore, made a…
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