Ex parte Worley
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Aedrich, J,, Horry, October, 1896. Petition of Emaline Worley to clerk of court, to' have homestead assigned to her out of the estate of her husband, Coleman Worley.
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Before Aedrich, J,, Horry, October, 1896. Petition of Emaline Worley to clerk of court, to' have homestead assigned to her out of the estate of her husband, Coleman Worley. To the return of the commissioners, assigning her 90.0 acres of land and $500, mostly of funds in hands of administrator, Jackson Worley, son and administrator, and Rey Worley, son, except as follows: 1st. Because said clerk erred in granting the prayer of said Emaline Worley’s petition, and appointing homestead commissioners, after due notice of the pendency of above described action had been filed in the office, and case…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chibe Justice McIvER.
The Court feels bound to say, in the outset, that the “Case,” as prepared for argument here, is so defective in several important particulars, that we have been compelled to gather the facts from a brief statement of the testimony set out in the “Case,” and from the decree of the Circuit Judge, although there are some manifest clerical errors in the latter, and at least one finding of fact wholly inconsistent with the testimony. The facts, as gathered from these sources, may be stated substantially as follows: On or about the…
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