Wilson v. Watkins
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Townsend, J., Anderson, Action by Mrs. Amanda C. Wilson and the other heirs at law of J. C. Eaton against William Watkins for possession of a tract of land and partition among themselves.
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Before Townsend, J., Anderson, Action by Mrs. Amanda C. Wilson and the other heirs at law of J. C. Eaton against William Watkins for possession of a tract of land and partition among themselves. The Circuit Judge filed the following deeree: In this action the plaintiffs seek to recover possession of a tract of land, and to partition it among them. ' The facts reported by the special referee show that J. C. Eaton made a deed to said land to R. G. Eaton on the 16th July, 1874, which was.duly recorded; that on the day of January, 1879, R. G. Eaton made a deed to said land to the defendant, Wm.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Pope.
The decree of his Honor, Jrtdge *346Townsend, and the exceptions thereto, will be reported. Au inspection of the “Case” shows that this contention is made to depend on the construction of the deed of J. C. Eaton to R. G. Eaton — grantor’s son — executed on the 16th day of July, 1874, for the tract of land in dispute. This deed was duty recorded in the office of the register of mesne conveyance for Anderson County, in this State, on the 17th November, 1874. The defendant, William Watkins, in the year 1879, received a deed therefor in fee…
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