Sullivan v. Latimer
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Witherspoon, J., Greenville, July, 1891. These were two actions against J. P. Latimer and J. H. Latimer, executors of Hewlett Sullivan, and others, one by Charles M. Sullivan and the other by Thomas J. Sullivan and others. The first action was commenced October 6, 1887. The Circuit decree was as follows: Hewlett Sullivan died testate May 30, 1889, leaving a considerable real and personal estate estimated to exceed one hundred thousand dollars in value.
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Before Witherspoon, J., Greenville, July, 1891. These were two actions against J. P. Latimer and J. H. Latimer, executors of Hewlett Sullivan, and others, one by Charles M. Sullivan and the other by Thomas J. Sullivan and others. The first action was commenced October 6, 1887. The Circuit decree was as follows: Hewlett Sullivan died testate May 30, 1889, leaving a considerable real and personal estate estimated to exceed one hundred thousand dollars in value. The testator, Hewlett Sullivan, was a bachelor of some eighty years of age at the time of his death. The plaintiffs and defendants in…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Me. Justice McGowan.
These cases were brought for a settlement of the estate of Hewlett Sullivan, deceased, and were heard together. The record is enormous, consisting of nearly three hundred pages of printed matter, with an addition of half as many of printed argument. The various matters involved are in some confusion, and in order to have a clear view of the points to be decided, it will be necessary to give a condensed outline of the principal facts.
Hewlett Sullivan was a bachelor, and lived to the great age of more than eighty years. Having energy…
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