Rountree v. Lane

Citations

• 32 S.C. 160
• 10 S.E. 941
• 1890 S.C. LEXIS 30

Syllabus

<p>1. Where the parties in interest orally make partition of land amongst themselves, and each takes and retains for eleven years exclusive possession of the portion so assigned to them respectively in severalty, the court will sustain the partition.</p> <p>2. Concurrent findings of fact by master and Circuit Judge approved.</p> <p>3. One of the grantors named in a deed as the parties to whom the consideration was paid, may testify that he was so named and signed the deed only for the purpose of perfecting paper title, and that he claimed or received no part of such consideration.</p>