Cresswell v. Bank of Greenwood

Mr. Associate Justice StukES

delivered the unanimous opinion of the Court.

This appeal challenges the correctness of the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas for Greenwood County that fee simple title was conveyed by the deed of Henry H. Cres-well to his son, Henry Garlington Creswell, dated February 23, 1891. The conveyance was of 132 1/2 acres of land located in what was then Abbeville County, now Greenwood. The deed was recorded May-9, 1891, in Abbeville and on October 26, 1916, in subsequently created Greenwood. The original was not produced at the trial and there were put in evidence the…