Lowry v. Thompson
Supreme Court of South Carolina
This was an action by James M. Lowry against Hugh S. Thompson, governor, W. E. Stoney, comptroller general, and others, as Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, for the recovery of a title deed. Upon the point decided by the court, the opinion fully states the case. '
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered
Mr. Justice McIver.
This action was brought by the plaintiff against the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund of the State of South Carolina to recover the possession of two papers in the form of deeds, purporting to be conveyances of certain tracts of land in the County of York, by the plaintiff to C. P.. Leslie, as land commissioner of the said State, the consideration mentioned therein aggregating the sum of seventeen thousand five hundred and ninety-nine dollars. The case as made for the plaintiff was, in substance, this :
Sometime in the year 1870, the…
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