Case Name: Elizabeth Pinckney et alt. v. William Henry Drayton et alt.
Court: Court of Chancery of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1770-10-17
Citations: 1 Rec. Co. Ch. (S.C.) 579
Docket Number: 
Parties: Elizabeth Pinckney et alt. v. William Henry Drayton et alt.
Judges: Present, His Honor, the Lieutenant Governor; The honorable Othniel Beale, Egerton Leigh, John Burn, and Thomas Skottowe, Esquires; William Burrows, Esq., Master.
Reporter: Records of the court of Chancery of South Carolina, 1671-1779
Volume: 1
Pages: 579–580

Head Matter:
Present, His Honor, the Lieutenant Governor; The honorable Othniel Beale, Egerton Leigh, John Burn, and Thomas Skottowe, Esquires; William Burrows, Esq., Master.
Elizabeth Pinckney et alt. v. William Henry Drayton et alt.
She probably was Elizabeth (Lucas) Pinckney (1722-1793), widow of Chief Justice Charles Pinckney, a woman distinguished for charm and intelligence as well as for her services in the development of indigo culture. See Dictionary of American Biography. No original papers have been found in this suit to explain why she should have wished an injunction to stop attachment of the personal property of William Henry Drayton, unless because her own claims were entitled to priority. He was not only a rich man’s son, but was supposed' to be wealthy through his marriage to Dorothy, an heiress of Culcheth Golightly. Drayton, however, had lived extravagantly in London, where he associated with the court set, and he inherited very little of his father’s great estate. See Margaret Babcock Meriwether (ed.), The Carolinian Florist of Governor John Drayton of South Carolina 1J66-1822, xxv, xxvi, xxvii.

Opinion:
On Motion of Mr. John Rutledge Solicitor for the Complainants praying that for the matters in Bill alledged an Injunction may issue to stop Pro ceedings at Law- upon the several Attachments issued against the personal Estate of the said Defendant William Henry Drayton; The Court on hearing Counsel on both Sides took till friday next at ten of the Clock in the forenoon to consider of, and give their Judgment therein.
Friday the 19th of October 1770.
Present as above.
The Court mett according to appointment and thought proper to dismiss the Motion with Respect to granting the Injunction but ordered that the Bill do still remain upon the file.