Swygert v. Goodwin
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Pressley, J., Richland, July, 1889. These were four separate proceedings, instituted by Abigail Swygert against Rachel Goodwin and her son, Ben, Harry Jones, Harry Williams, and Catherine Hinton, under section 1819 of General Statutes. The four cases were heard together.
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Before Pressley, J., Richland, July, 1889. These were four separate proceedings, instituted by Abigail Swygert against Rachel Goodwin and her son, Ben, Harry Jones, Harry Williams, and Catherine Hinton, under section 1819 of General Statutes. The four cases were heard together. Mrs. Swygert held mortgages of the land in question against these parties, which mortgages gave to the mortgagee a power of sale after condition broken, with the right to become the purchaser, and contained a stipulation that the purchaser at such sale should have possession on the execution of a conveyance to him or…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice Simpson.
Abigail Swygert, the respondent, made applications to Trial Justice Muller, of the city of Columbia, Richland County, in this State, to have the defendants ejected from certain lands in said county, which she alleged they occupied as her tenants ; further alleging that the lease in each case (four in number) had expired, that the rent past due had not been paid, that through her agent she had entered upon the premises and demanded possession, which had been refused. Whereupon the said trial justice issued a notice in each…
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