Case ID: rec-co-ch-sc_1/html/0508-04.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Alexr Stewart Register in Chancery", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Present, His Excellency, Thomas Boone, Esq., Governor, etc.; His Honour, The Lieutenant Governor; The Honorable Othniel Beale, Henry Middleton, John Guerard, Charles Shinner, Esquires, being the Majority of his Majesty’s Council residing in this Province for executing the Office of Chancellor. William Burrows, Esq. Master.
    William Stone Complainant v. William Logan and others Defendants
    
      
       His Excellency, Thomas Boone, son of Charles and Mary Boone, was born in England in 1729 of a well-known South Carolina family. Governor of New Jersey, 1759-1761, he arrived in Charleston with the advantages of executive experience as well as a local background, but his short administration was not a success. As his ancestral Barony and other property were too far from the capital for commuting, he purchased from the Colletons a small but handsome estate on the Cooper River, Exmouth, now obliterated within the property of the Standard Oil Company. During the Revolution he was an absentee loyalist, and his property, including negroes, ivas confiscated by South Carolina; according to his memorial, he valued it at $200,700. (SCHGM, XIII, 77> 7§-)
      Charles Shinner, chief justice 1762-1767, is said to have been an Irishman, brought up to a mechanical trade. Because of his efforts to comply with the provisions of the Stamp Act, he became the most hated man in the province. His house was mobbed, causing the death of his wife; his salary was withheld; and he was removed from office as ignorant and unfit. He died in Charleston, Feb. 26, 1768. (St. Philip’s Register, 1754-1810, p. 323; compare McCrady, S. C. under the Royal Government, pp. 466 ff, with Wallace, History of S. C., II, 70 ff. For Shinner’s defense of himself, see SCHGM, XXX, 28 ff.)
    
   Upon Motion made this day unto this Court by Mr. Leigh being of Counsel with the said Complainant, It was alledged that the Complainant had filed a Bill in order to obtain an Injunction to stay Proceedings at Law Commenced by the said Defendant against the Plaintiff in this Cause; and on hearing Mr. Parsons on behalf of the Defendants, and what was alledged on both sides, and the Defendants Counsel having required that the Complainant should Swear to the truth of the Allegations contained in the said Bill, Whereupon, and the Court being of Opinion that the Deposit made by the Complainant was agreeable to the Act of Assembly in that case made and provided; It is therefore Ordered That a Writ of Injunction do issue directed to the said William Logan and Lionel Chalmers their and each of their Counsellors Attorneys Sollicitors and Agents and every of them, The Complainant Swearing to the truth of the Allegations contained in his said Bill according to the Directions of the said Act.

Alexr Stewart Register in Chancery 
      
       Lionel Chalmers (c. 1715-1777), M.D., partner and associate of Dr. John Lining, was born in Scotland, and when very young came to South Carolina, where he practiced some forty years. In 1739 he married Martha Logan, and after her death, Elizabeth Warden. In 1776 he published in London his Account of the Weather and Diseases of South Carolina. (Aldredge, “Weather Observers and Observations at Charleston” in Year Book of the City of Charleston, 1940, pp. 219-222.)