S.C. Code Ann. § 29-5-220

At the time assigned for the hearing, or within such further time as the court allows for that purpose, every creditor having a lien of the kind before mentioned upon the same property may appear and prove his claim and the owner and each of the creditors may contest the several claims of every other creditor and the court shall hear and determine them in a summary manner, either with or without a jury, as the case may require.