Arnold v. House
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Pressley, J., Richland, November, 1878. Hon. Thomas Thomson, judge of the Eighth Circuit, sat at-the hearing of this case in the place of Associate Justice Haskell, who had been one of the counsel in the cause. On March 31st, 1858, Jesse House obtained a judgment against Jacob H. Ledingham, in the Court of Common Pleas-for Richland district, for $800 and costs. October 1st, 1859, a payment was made upon the execution in the case.
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Before Pressley, J., Richland, November, 1878. Hon. Thomas Thomson, judge of the Eighth Circuit, sat at-the hearing of this case in the place of Associate Justice Haskell, who had been one of the counsel in the cause. On March 31st, 1858, Jesse House obtained a judgment against Jacob H. Ledingham, in the Court of Common Pleas-for Richland district, for $800 and costs. October 1st, 1859, a payment was made upon the execution in the case. February 17th, 1865, all the records and papers in the offices of the clerk of the court and sheriff for this district were destroyed with the court-house in…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Thomson, A. A. J.
The plaintiff recovered, October 26th, 1870, judgment against Jacob H. Ledingham for the sum of $1029.54. Jesse House, one of the defendants, obtained a judgment in 1858, against the same party, for the sum of $800» The record of Jesse House’s judgment was lost, and it was restored by a new record substituted therefor, by order of the court. The plaintiff alleged that the judgment of Jesse House was fraudulent, or set up for a fraudulent purpose, and should be postponed to his. A tract of land of Jacob H. Ledingham had been sold by the…
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