Scott v. Newell

(dissenting) : I think that the special referee has reached the justice of this case, and therefore respectfully dissent from the opposite conclusion announced in the opinion of Mr. Acting Associate Justice Thurmond, for the reasons which follow. The case is quite complicated, and at the risk of repeating what is said in the leading opinion and in the report of the special referee, I shall give my very decided impressions of it.

It appears that one E. A. Simmons, in October, 1921, owned two tracts of land in Williamsburg County, which for convenient reference I shall designate as tract No. 1…