Baker v. CEDARWOOD ASSOCIATES, TERRACORP, INC.

Lewis, Chief Justice:

This appeal concerns a dispute between two lending institutions as to the title of appliances. Equitable prevailed before the special master. The lower court judge reversed, holding that the contractor who sold the appliances to Equitable never owned the property; thus negating the validity of Equitable’s title. The numerous exceptions raise the primary question of title to the appliances used and to be used in the apartment complex.

Terracorp, the owner of some 19.8 acres in Richland County, acquired a three and a half million dollar loan from Barnett for the construction…