Rabb v. Patterson
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Gary, J., Fairfield, September, 1893. Action by Edwin J. Babb, as trustee, and Cassandra H. Rabb, against M. Virginia Patterson, as executrix of Giles J. Patterson, and J. A. Brice, assignee, for rents and profits, commenced July 3, 1891. The Circuit decree was as follows: The complaint in this cause seeks to recover a judgment for the rental value of a certain tract of land during the time the same was in the possession of Giles J. Patterson.
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Before Gary, J., Fairfield, September, 1893. Action by Edwin J. Babb, as trustee, and Cassandra H. Rabb, against M. Virginia Patterson, as executrix of Giles J. Patterson, and J. A. Brice, assignee, for rents and profits, commenced July 3, 1891. The Circuit decree was as follows: The complaint in this cause seeks to recover a judgment for the rental value of a certain tract of land during the time the same was in the possession of Giles J. Patterson. About the 10th day of December, 1891, while the cause was pending, the defendant, Giles J. Patterson, departed this life, leaving of force a…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Pope.
This appeal presents some additional phases in a controversy that has been conducted in our courts since the year 1884. Its history may be traced in 29 S. C., 278, 32 Id., 194, and 38 Id., 138, and having been so fully ventilated already, will require but little further statement. Some reference to the facts ought, however, to be made, to make the present issue intelligible.
A tract of land lying in Fairfield County, in this State, was conveyed to a trustee in'1867. In 1877, that trustee, in flagrant violation of his trust, conveyed the…
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