Supreme Court of South Carolina November 22, 1880, CASE No. 940 (Black v. Childs)

The opinion of the court was delivered by

McGowan, A. J.,

Alexander Brodie died intestate in 1861, seized of real estate. Charles H. Black administered upon his estate. In 1862 proceedings were instituted in the then court of equity, in a case entitled Charles IL. Black v. James Black and others to partition or sell the land of which the intestate died seized.