In Re Percival's Estate
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Bowman, J., Charleston, January, 1917. Proceedings in escheat by the State, on the relation of the Board of Commissioners of the Sinking Fund of the State, through R. M. McCown, Secretary of State, as agent of the board and as escheator, against the estate'of Belle Percival, otherwise known as Anne Rouise Purcell (Purcil), deceased, consolidated with petitions by Bridget Purcell and others, and by Patrick Purcell respectively, claiming by way of traverse to be heirs…
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Before Bowman, J., Charleston, January, 1917. Proceedings in escheat by the State, on the relation of the Board of Commissioners of the Sinking Fund of the State, through R. M. McCown, Secretary of State, as agent of the board and as escheator, against the estate'of Belle Percival, otherwise known as Anne Rouise Purcell (Purcil), deceased, consolidated with petitions by Bridget Purcell and others, and by Patrick Purcell respectively, claiming by way of traverse to be heirs at law of said decedent. There was a verdict in favor of Bridget Purcell and others, and the Board of Commissioners and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Gage.
This cause has been here once already, on the issue whether the Circuit Court had the right to order an exhumation of a dead body at the instance of the alleged mother, for purpose of identification. 101 S. C. 198, 85 S. E. 247. The instant trial in the Circuit Court followed hard on that exhumation, and it involves the heirship of two classes of persons to the woman named Belle Percival, and who claim the estate she left at her death. The estate was first brought into controversy by the Board of Commissioners of the Sinking Fund of…
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- In Re Estate of PercivalSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1915
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