Case Name: Pawley v. Morrall
Court: Court of Chancery of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1742-04-09
Citations: 1 Rec. Co. Ch. (S.C.) 390
Docket Number: 
Parties: Pawley v. Morrall
Judges: Present, His Honour, The Lieutenant Governor; John Fenwick, Joseph Wragg, John Hammerton, Edmond Atkin, Joseph Blake, Richard Hill, Esquires.
Reporter: Records of the court of Chancery of South Carolina, 1671-1779
Volume: 1
Pages: 390–391

Head Matter:
Present, His Honour, The Lieutenant Governor; John Fenwick, Joseph Wragg, John Hammerton, Edmond Atkin, Joseph Blake, Richard Hill, Esquires.
Pawley v. Morrall
Edmond Atkin (1707-1761), first superintendent of Indian affairs in the Southern Department, 1756-1761, was appointed to Council on May 25, 1738. He has been described as a well educated man of genuine courage, but pompous and slow, and none too successful in his work, largely because of inadequate support. In 1760 he married Lady Anne McKenzie, and the following year he died at his Mars Bluff plantation on the Pedee River. (John Richard Alden, John Stuart and the Southern Colonial Frontier, 1944, pp. 68, 69, 134.)
Colonel Joseph Blake (1700-1751), had been appointed to Council in June 1740.
Richard Hill, son of Chief Justice Charles Hill, and in partnership with his brother-in-law, John Guerard, as Hill and Guerard, was like his father a great merchant. He was appointed to Council on August 6, 1741 (Miscellaneous Record, Historical Commission of S. C., EE, p. 275).

Opinion:
Whereas by an Order of this Court on the 5 th March last, It was Ordered, That the Injunction in this Cause should be Dissolved, unless Cause were this day Shewn to the contrary: Now upon opening the Matter unto this Court by Mr. Rutledge of Counsel for the Defendant It was Moved that the said Injunction might be Dissolved Mr. Graeme of Counsel for the Complainant Offered some Reasons for continuing the same, Whereupon and on hearing what was alledged by the Councel on both Sides; It appeared to this Court That the Complainant's Bill hath not sufficient Equity in it for continuing the Said Injunction; It is therefore Ordered That the Injunction in this Cause be dissolved, and the Bill dismissed out of this Court with Costs of Suit to be paid by the Complainant.
Alexr Stewart Deputy Register
David Graeme, attorney-general 1757-1764, was the son of Dr. William Graeme of Charleston, and was admitted to Middle Temple in 1753. He was a member of the Commons House in *759> when he was married to Miss Anne Matthewes, "an heiress of great fortune and fine accomplishments." He died in 1777, and his will was proved in London by his widow, sole legatee and executrix. (E. A. Jones, American Members of the Inns of Court, p. 89; A. S. Salley [compiler], Marriage Notices in the South-Carolina Gazette and its Successors, 1902, p. 19; SCHGM, IV, 237, 238.)