Legal Opinion

DuPont v. DuBos

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Decided October 7, 1890PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Before Hudson, J., Berkeley, December, 1889. This was a suit by Gilbert Geddes DuPont against Elizabeth C. S. DuBos, commenced June 19, 1889, to which B. H. Rutledge was added as a party defendant on his own motion, in December, 1889. The opinion fully states the case.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mr. Justice McIver.

The allegations contained in the complaint may be stated substantially as follows: 1st. That Thomas Bannister Seabrook departed this life in 1839, leaving a will, of which his daughter, who had subsequently intermarried with one Andrew Milne, became the qualified executrix. 2nd. That by said will the testator devised to his said daughter a house and lot on the corner of Bull and Rutledge streets, in the city of Charleston, and a plantation in St. Andrew’s Parish, in fee conditional. 3rd. That Mrs. Milne died in 1882 without ever…

2Cited by4 opinions

  1. Cantey v. Edward L. Summersett & Co.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1926
  2. McKinnon v. SummersSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1953
  3. Shute v. ShuteSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1908
  4. Shute v. ShuteSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1908

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