Brunswick Corporation, and Floyd Corporation, D/B/A Pleasant Lanes v. J. C. Long, Alberta S. Long, and the Beach Co., a Corporation

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

The primary issue which we are called upon to decide in this case is the extent, under South Carolina law as applied to the particular lease agreement in question, of the priority of a landlord’s claim to rent over the claim of a chattel mortgagee to mortgaged property placed upon the leased premises. The district court ruled, against the contention of the landlord that it was entitled to recover the total amount of rent due throughout the term of the lease, that the landlord’s claim had priority only to the extent that it was for rent unpaid during the period which…