Hillman v. Pinion

How courts have described this case

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• holding a party may not complain for the first time on appeal of an alleged error that the party’s own conduct induced
• explaining that the neglect of the attorney is the neglect of the client, and no mistake attributable to an attorney can be used as a basis for relief on appeal unless the mistake would have been excusable if attributed to the client
• \This court has held that the death of one party to an action does not abate an action for equitable distribution.\ (citing Hodge, 305 S.C. at 525, 409 S.E.2d at 439)
• “[T]his [C]ourt will not reverse the trial court absent an abuse of discretion.”
• “The general rule is that the neglect of the attorney is the neglect of the client, and no mistake attributable to an attorney can be successfully used as a ground for relief, unless it would have been excusable if attributable to the client.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).