Case Name: David Johnson and others, vs. L. Thompson
Court: South Carolina Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1814-11
Citations: 4 Des. Eq. 458
Docket Number: 
Parties: David Johnson and others, vs. L. Thompson.
Judges: Heard before Chancellor Thompson.
Reporter: South Carolina Equity Reports
Volume: 4
Pages: 458–459

Head Matter:
Union, Pinckney District.
Heard before Chancellor Thompson.
David Johnson and others, vs. L. Thompson.
CASK ECTtf,
A father makes a deed ofgiftof personal property to his daughter, who was then a married woman. The court will infer that the inten. tion of the donor was to give her a separate estate, which her husband had no right to dispose ofin any way, though the deed was not explicit on that point.
This case depended upon the construction of a deed of gift which a father made of certain personal property to a daughter who was then a married woman. Her husband disposed of the property — The complainants, who Wore the children of the donee, the daughter, contended that the father intended to give a seperate estate to their mother, not subject to the debts or the disposition of her husband. And of that opinion ivas the judge who tried the case, who decided accordingly.
Nov. 1814.
From this decree there was an appeal, which was heard at Columbia.

Opinion:
After argument the court made the following decree:
We are of opinion that the decree of the Circuit Court ought to he affirmed. The property in dispute be--jug given to the mother of the complainants after marriage. it may be fairly inferred from the words of the deed, that the intention of the father, the donor, was to give to her a separate estate, which her husband had no right to dis-. gose of in any manner.
Farrow and Gist for appellant.
Gist and Johnson for respondents
It is therefore ordered and adjudged, that the decree of the Circuit Court be affirmed.
Henry W. Desaus sure,
Theodore Gaxixak®,
(Signed) Thos. Waties,
W. D. James,
W. Thompson.