Southern Railway-Carolina Division v. Howell
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Memminger, J., Spartanburg, March, 1909. Action by Southern Railway — Carolina Division against J. L. Howell. Defendant appeals. cite: Issue of estoppel is for jury: 79 S. C. 269; 63 S. C. 39; 81 S. C. 332; 52 S. C. 408; 84 S. C. 429; 82 S. C. 35 ; 79 S. C. 368. The law of estoppel: 88 S. C. 24; 67 S. C. 451; 84 S. C. 430; 31 S. C. 135; 77 S. C. 425. cite: There is no evidence of estoppel: 79 S. C. 266; 16 Cyc. 726, 734; 93 U. S. 335. Nor of abandonment: 1 Cyc. 4; 87…
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Before Memminger, J., Spartanburg, March, 1909. Action by Southern Railway — Carolina Division against J. L. Howell. Defendant appeals. cite: Issue of estoppel is for jury: 79 S. C. 269; 63 S. C. 39; 81 S. C. 332; 52 S. C. 408; 84 S. C. 429; 82 S. C. 35 ; 79 S. C. 368. The law of estoppel: 88 S. C. 24; 67 S. C. 451; 84 S. C. 430; 31 S. C. 135; 77 S. C. 425. cite: There is no evidence of estoppel: 79 S. C. 266; 16 Cyc. 726, 734; 93 U. S. 335. Nor of abandonment: 1 Cyc. 4; 87 S. C., 71.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion, of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice; Hydricic.
This is the second appeal in this case. The first is reported in 79 S. C. 281, 60 S. E. 677.
In 1874, John Bankston Davis conveyed to the Spartan-burg & Asheville Railroad Company a right of way two hundred feet wide, measuring from the center of the railroad, through a tract of land owned by him at or near Campobello. The deed was not recorded until after the controversy herein arose. Davis died in 1888, leaving a will wherein he devised the whole tract, including the right of way, to his niece, the wife of I. W. Wingo. In 1896,…
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