Legal Opinion

Peoples Bank v. Bramlett

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Decided August 21, 1900PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Before Townsend, J., Greenville, Application by H. J. Haynsworth for abatement of bid on account of defective acreage, in The Peoples Bank of Greenville against W. A. Bramlett and others. From Circuit order granting abatement, Ella M. Townes, mortgagee, appeals. cite: As to notice: 15 S. C., 127; 32 S. C., 481; 28 S. C.,. 47; 9 Rich.

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Before Townsend, J., Greenville, Application by H. J. Haynsworth for abatement of bid on account of defective acreage, in The Peoples Bank of Greenville against W. A. Bramlett and others. From Circuit order granting abatement, Ella M. Townes, mortgagee, appeals. cite: As to notice: 15 S. C., 127; 32 S. C., 481; 28 S. C.,. 47; 9 Rich. Eq., 19; 45 S. C., 393; 53 S. C., 315. On main question: 35 S. C., 404; 41 S. 'C., 200; 4 McC., 434; 2 Speer, 68; 23 S. C., 205; 13 S. C., 214; 41 S. C., 516. cites: On main question: 16 S. C., 276; 15 S. C., 124.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Jones.

This appeal is from a decree of the Circuit Court allowing a purchaser, at a foreclosure sale of land, an abatement in the price, on account of a defect in the title to a part of the land sold. The case is thus stated in the Circuit decree: “This case comes before me upon the master’s report, which shows that H. J. Haynsworth had purchased one of the tracts of land ordered to be sold at the price of $2,500, but that after his bid he ascertained that a certain portion of the land had been recovered from the mortgagor by title…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Mitchell v. PinckneySupreme Court of South Carolina · 1880

3Cited by7 opinions

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  2. Halsey v. Minnesota-South Carolina Land & Timber Co.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1928
  3. Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. v. McLucasSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1910
  4. Peake v. RenwickSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1910
  5. Raleigh & C. R. Co. v. Baltimore Nat. BankDistrict Court, D. South Carolina · 1941

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