Burns v. Gower
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Izlar, J., Greenville, This was an action commenbed by Amanda Burns against T. C. .Gower before a trial justice in August, 1889, and carried by appeal to the Circuit Court. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Justice McIver.
The plaintiff brought this action before a trial justice to recover the value of certain articles of personal property, which she alleged had unlawfully been taken from her by defendant. The defence was that the articles in question had been seized under a distress warrant issued to enforce the payment .of rent in arrear of a certain dwelling house in the city of Greenville, which defendant alleged had been leased from him *161by the plaintiff. But two questions seem to have been raised at the trial before the trial justice: 1st. Whether…
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