Legal Opinion

Sloan v. Hunter

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Decided January 2, 1900PublishedCited by 11 opinions

Before Townsend, J., Laurens, January, 1899. Action to set aside deed for fraud on creditors by J. B. E. Sloan against R. Lee Hunter, as administrator and heir-at-law of H. M. Hunter, J. H. Hunter, Mary E. Copeland, Ella S. Evans, G. W. Hunter and Henry C. Hunter.

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Before Townsend, J., Laurens, January, 1899. Action to set aside deed for fraud on creditors by J. B. E. Sloan against R. Lee Hunter, as administrator and heir-at-law of H. M. Hunter, J. H. Hunter, Mary E. Copeland, Ella S. Evans, G. W. Hunter and Henry C. Hunter. From Circuit decree, defendants appeal. cite: Administrator of judgment creditor is necessary party: 18 S. C., 131. Testimony of Mooney was a privileged communication: 3 Barb., 595. Form of confession is good: 15 S. C., 45. The preference was not fraudulent: 12 S. C., 167; 21 S. G, 270; 10 Rich. Eq., 411. Possession of Henry M.…

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Jones.

The plaintiff is a judgment creditor of Henry M. Hunter, deceased, and the defendants are the heirs-at-law and administrator ’ of said deceased. The main abject of the complaint is to' set aside as fraudulent a confession of judgment by Henry M. Hunter to his brother, Robert C. Hunter, and the sale of a 500 acre tract of land by the sheriff to Robert C. Hunter under said judgment, and a subsequent conveyance thereof to the defendant, J. H. Hunter, by J. H. T. Hunter, the only heir-at-law of R. C. Hunter, deceased.' The Circuit decree…

2Cited by11 opinions

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  2. State v. HydeOregon Supreme Court · 1918
  3. Marquette Corporation v. PriesterDistrict Court, E.D. South Carolina · 1964
  4. Nicholson v. KingeryWyoming Supreme Court · 1927
  5. Riddle v. GeorgeSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1936

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