Motte v. Aiken

Citations

• 29 S.C.L. 113

Syllabus

<p>1. Defendant, at Sheriff’s sale, purchased a horse, as the property of plaintiff’s father, the horse being claimed by the plaintiff under a parol gift from the father about seven years before the trial. Plaintiff and his father lived together, the latter having as much the possession of the horse after as before the gift. Held, on a suit for the value of the horse, that since the Act of 1832, (6 Stat. 483) plaintiff could not recover on such a case against a purchaser under an execution, for a debt contracted since the gift, as was the case.</p>