State v. O'Conner

Decided February 15, 1839

Court of Appeals of South Carolina · decided 1839-02-15

<p>Under our acts of 1721, (P. L. 116,) and 1785, (P. L. 379,) an- execution issuing out of the Court of Common Pleas of any district, creates a lien upon the personal property of the defendant, throughout the state, from the time of its lodgment in the sheriff’s office; and is not confined to property in.the district in which the execution is lodged. — [S.P. Woodward y. Hill, 3 M’Cord. Rep. 241.]</p>

Decided 1839-02-15

Cuhia, per O’Neall, J.

¶1This court concurs in the point of law ruled by the judge below. His judgment has the sanction of the case of Woodward v. Hill, 3 M'Cord. Rep. 241.

¶2The motion is dismissed.

E. & A, Rhett, for the motion. Solicitor Edwards, contra. Evans and Butler, Justices, concurred. Richardson, J. absent from indisposition. Earle, J. absent at the hearing, but concurred in the judgment.