Case ID: scl_13/html/0309-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Johnson\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John H. Sargent vs. Pat. Fox.
    Acitationfrom the ordinary, giving-notice of one’s intention to apply for administration, need not he published in a newspaper; hut it is enough, if read by an officiating clergyman in church.
    ON the 26th July, 1821, the Ordinary of Charleston district granted letters of administration on the personal estate of John Phillips White, deceased, to the defendant. On the 13th of August following, the plaintiff gave notice that he would appeal to the Circuit Court, on the ground that the citation giving notice of the defendant’s intention to apply for the administration, had not been published in some one of the newspapers in the city of Charles^ ton.r The ordinary certified that it was duly published by the officiating clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church: and the whole question was, whether the publication in. the newspapers is indispensable ?
    The Circuit Court refused the plaintiff’s application, and it was now renewed in the form of an appeal from that decision.
    
      
      Sargent, for the motion.
    
      White, contra.
   Mr. Justice Johnson

delivered the opinion of the court:

I am not aware of any law that requires the publication of a citation in the newspapers, and none such has been adduced. The mode resorted to in this case has been immemorially and almost universally practised.

The motion must be refused.

Justices Colcock, Nott and Huger, concurred.