Case ID: sc_6/html/0278-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Willard, A.1 J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

HEARD APRIL TERM, 1875.
    Manufacturing Company vs. Price.
    The questions decided by the Supreme Court on an appeal are conclusively adjudicated so far as the .same case is concerned.
    Before MOSES, J., at Spartanburg, October Term, 1873.
    This was a new trial of the case reported in 4 S. C., 338.
    The case was now heard and decided by the Circuit' Judge without a jury, and upon the same state of facts proved on the first trial.
    His Honor reversed the facts and the law of the case as laid down by the Supreme Court on the first appeal, and gave judgment for the defendant.
    The plaintiff appealed on grounds presenting the same questions, with one unimportant exception, that had already been decided.
    
      Bobo & Carlisle, for appellant.
    
      Evans & Bomar, contra.
    September 9, 1875.
   The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Willard, A.1 J.

All the important questions in this case have been already conclusively adjudicated. The decree of foreclosure clearly includes the disputed one hundred acres by referring the description to the mortgage in which they are described. The subsequent expression, viz., “now owned and possessed by the said Benjamin Price,” must be construed as intended to identify the tract to which the mortgage related as a whole, but not to limit or qualify the description as set forth in the mortgage.

The appellants misconceive the former judgment of this Court in this case. — 4 S. C., 338. We did not hold that the plaintiffs were necessary parties to the foreclosure suit, but that, not being parties, they were not subject to technical estoppel as it regards matters alleged in the decree in that cause. The bill to foreclose the mortgage was filed in April, 1856, and the decree of foreclosure made June 7th, 1856, while it was not until 1858 that the plaintiff obtained the conveyance from the Commissioner in which their claim to title rests.

The judgment of the Circuit Court is entirely conformable to the former decision of this Court, and properly disposed of the question presented by this case.

The appeal should be dismissed.

Moses, C. J., and Wright, A. J., concurred.