Legal Opinion

SHUMAKER v. Shumaker

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Decided May 14, 1959No. 17535PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Taylor, Justice.

This appeal arises out of an action brought in the Court of Common Pleas for Calhoun County for partition of three small tracts of farm land, neither of which is contiguous to another.

H. J. Shumaker, who died in 1937, devised by will the property in question to his widow, Mary Ella Shumaker, for life and at her death to his children. The widow died in 1956, leaving seven children by H. J. Shumaker, who with one exception are parties to this action, one sister having deeded her interest to defendant making his interested an undivided 2/7ths in the premises. The matter was…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Dalgarno v. BaumSupreme Court of Virginia · 1944
  2. Tedder v. TedderSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1918
  3. Guignard v. CorleySupreme Court of South Carolina · 1928
  4. Bank of Swansea v. RuckerSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1930

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Associated Spring Corp. v. Roy F. Wilson & Avnet, Inc.District Court, D. South Carolina · 1976
  2. Regions Bank v. Wingard Properties, Inc.Court of Appeals of South Carolina · 2011
  3. Few v. FewSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1963
  4. Ackerman v. HeardCourt of Appeals of South Carolina · 1986
  5. Coen v. GadsdenSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1996

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