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12 S.C.L. 493

Ex parte Vance

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Decided September 6, 1821

Supreme Court of South Carolina · decided 1821-09-06

1PlflS was a motion to quash or suspend an execution issued at the instance of Joseph Ratcliff vs. William, Vance, on a recovery had in an action of trover, wherein the verdict was given in the alternative, viz,: to pay three thousand dollars, or to deliver up certain negroes, the subject of the action.

Decided 1821-09-06

Mr. Justice Gantt

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2The court have duly considered those several grounds, -and which were equally insisted on before the Judge at Chambers. They cannot avail the appellant. The: motion is therefore dismissed, and the opinion at Chambers sustained, for the reasons therein given.

Justices Noit, Johnson and Huger, concurred.
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