Gildersleeve v. Alexander

Citations

• 29 S.C.L. 298

Syllabus

<p>1. The Act of 1818, (7 Stat. 319) to enlarge the jurisdiction of the City Court of Charleston, which provides “that nothing contained in this Act shall be so construed as to extend to any inhabitant of this State, who may not be resident within the City of Charleston; and no person shall be construed to be a resident of the said City, unless he shall have resided in the said City three months prior to the commencement of the suit or prosecution, or shall have resided within the said City four months during the year preceding the commencement of the said suitor prosecution,” subjects to the jurisdiction of that Court persons who are resident, and have been for three months prior to the suit, and persons resident who may not have resided in the City three months prior to the suit, but who were residents four months in the year preceding.</p> <p>2. This construction gives effect to all the terms of the Act, and is subordinate to that part of it which provides that it shall not be “so construed as to extend to any inhabitant of this State who may not be resident within the City.”</p>