Reid v. Stevens
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before NoetoN, J., Edgefield, August, 1892. Action by George T. Reid and William Reid, partners as George T. Reid & Co., against Matilda J. Stevens, commenced in August, 1891, to foreclose two mortgages.- The Circuit decree was as follows: This action is brought to foreclose two mortgages made by the defendant, a married woman, the one to J. P. Phillips, assigned by him to Hipp, and by Hipp to the plaintiffs, and the other made to the plaintiffs.
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Before NoetoN, J., Edgefield, August, 1892. Action by George T. Reid and William Reid, partners as George T. Reid & Co., against Matilda J. Stevens, commenced in August, 1891, to foreclose two mortgages.- The Circuit decree was as follows: This action is brought to foreclose two mortgages made by the defendant, a married woman, the one to J. P. Phillips, assigned by him to Hipp, and by Hipp to the plaintiffs, and the other made to the plaintiffs. The defendant pleads that the first has been paid, and that it was not made with reference to her separate estate, and that it was collateral to a…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice MoIver.
This is an action for the foreclosure of two mortgages on the same tract of land. The first was a mortgage executed on the 12th of January, 1887, by the defendant to one J. P. Phillips, and by him assigned to one John C. Hipp, on the 7th of December, 1888, and by the said Hipp transferred to the plaintiffs on the 18th of February, 1889. The second was a mortgage executed by the defendant to the plaintiffs on the 20th of May, 1889. The defence set up by the defendant’s answer was of a two-fold character: 1st. That the Phillips…
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