KIRVEN ET AL. v. LAWRENCE ET AL.

17588

235 S.C. 380 (1959)

111 S.E.2d 692

Joan Lawrence KIRVEN and Eula R. Lawrence, Appellants, v. Hattie P. LAWRENCE, Kenneth C. Lawrence, Wilbur H. Lawrence, Mary Lawrence Clements, Francis Elizabeth Lawrence, J.R. Lawrence, Betty Joe Harter, Joe Barr, and B.I. Lawrence, Respondents.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

December 2, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Rogers W. Kirven and McEachin, Townsend & Zeigler, of Florence, for Appellants.

Messrs. Joseph B. Clements, Emil T. Cannon and Jack J. Wright, of Florence, for Respondents.


December 2, 1959.

STUKES, Chief Justice.

In this action a single issue was submitted to the jury, i. e., whether the grantor in a certain deed of real estate was of sufficient mental capacity to execute the deed. On the third day of the trial, which was a Friday, the case went to the jury at 11:40 A.M., and they were later taken out to lunch. At about 4:35 P.M. they informed the trial judge that they were not yet in agreement upon the verdict. (The...

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