Case Name: Charles Wright v. William Raven
Court: Court of Chancery of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1764-06-29
Citations: 1 Rec. Co. Ch. (S.C.) 534
Docket Number: 
Parties: Charles Wright v. William Raven
Judges: Present, His Honor, the Lieutenant Governor; The Honourable Othniel Beale, Daniel Blake, Charles Shinner, and Thomas Skottowe, Esquires for executing the Office of Chancellor; William Burrows Esquire Master.
Reporter: Records of the court of Chancery of South Carolina, 1671-1779
Volume: 1
Pages: 534–535

Head Matter:
Present, His Honor, the Lieutenant Governor; The Honourable Othniel Beale, Daniel Blake, Charles Shinner, and Thomas Skottowe, Esquires for executing the Office of Chancellor; William Burrows Esquire Master.
Charles Wright v. William Raven
Thomas Skottowe, a royal placeman holding office under several patents, was secretary of the province, 1762-1775, as well as clerk of the Council and of the Commons House. In 1766 he married Mary Lucia, daughter of the third Landgrave Edmund Bellinger. His will was proved in England in 1788. (Salley, Marriage Notices, p. 31; SCHGM, VI, 124.)

Opinion:
On Motion of Mr. Rutledge Sollicitor for the Defendant praying that the Writt of Injunction issued in this Cause might be dissolved alledging that the Defendant had answered and denied all the Complainant's Equity, The Court on reading an Affidavit of the Service of this intended Motion of the Defendants Sollicitor and also an Affidavit of his Assent to such Motion did order that the said Writt of Injunction be dissolved.
John Troup, Register in Chancery