Calvert v. Nickles
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Hudson, J., Abbeville, October, 1886. This was an action by Susan E. Calvert, Rebecca Hannah, and’ Clementine H. Mcllwaine against George E. Nickles and three infants named Mundy. The opinion states the case.
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Before Hudson, J., Abbeville, October, 1886. This was an action by Susan E. Calvert, Rebecca Hannah, and’ Clementine H. Mcllwaine against George E. Nickles and three infants named Mundy. The opinion states the case. The Circuit decree or judgment was as follows: It is claimed by the plaintiffs that George Nickles, their father, during his life-time, sold to his son,. George E. Nickles, one of the defendants, a tract of 218 acres of land for one thousand dollars, of which purchase money the vendee promised to pay one-hundred dollars to each of the plaintiffs, and one hundred dollars among them…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Chibe Justice Simpson.
The action below was brought by the plaintiffs to recover one hundred dollars each, and also one *307hundred dollars for the Mundy defendants, in all $400, from the defendant, George E. Nickles, claimed under the following alleged facts, to wit: That some time in the year 1882, one George Nickles, the father of the plaintiffs and of the defendant, George E. Nickles, and grandfather of the Mundy defendants, agreed to and did convey to the said George E. Nickles a certain tract of land situate in Abbeville County, upon the…
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