22 S.C.L. 301
Court of Appeals of South Carolina
Decided February 20, 1837
Court of Appeals of South Carolina · decided 1837-02-20
Tried before his Honor Judge Evans, Charleston, January Term, 1837. Traverse of escheat. This was a case on the issue docket. An application was mads to try this case, out of the regular order of the docket, on the alie-gation it was entitled to preference of all other cases on the issue docket. The application was refused, and the annexed notice of appeal was presented to me, with a view to settle the practice. JOSIAH J. EVANS, Presiding Judge. Ground of Appeal.
Decided 1837-02-20
¶1delivered the opinion of the court.
¶2There is nothing in the escheat act, (1 Brevard, 305,) which gives traversers of escheat, a precedence on the docket, over other cases. The act says, such cases shall be heard without delay. But that is the law in relation to ajl cases on the docket. The motion is dismissed.
¶3JOSIAH J. EVANS.
¶4We concur,