BAKER v. CEDARWOOD ASSOCIATES, TERRACORP, INC.

21312

275 S.C. 359 (1980)

271 S.E.2d 596

Thompson S. BAKER, G.W. Botts, W.J. Bowen, Robert P. Crisp, James Fentress, John A. Gilliland, William S. Woods, James H. Winston, W.W. Munnerlyn, and J.P. Thornton, as Trustees of Barnett Mortgage Trust, and Barnett-Winston Investment Trust, Respondents, v. Cedarwood Associates, Terracorp, Inc., Chicago Title Insurance Company, Cablecolor of Columbia, Inc., O'Neal Plumbing Company, United States Aluminum and Steel Highway Products Corporation, Thomas Climatic Control, Inc., Richtex Corporation, PPG Industries, Inc., W.T. Brannen, d/b/a Master Construction Co., Inc., C.L. Fisher Iron Works, Inc., Binnings Building Products, a division of National Gypsum Company, Geneva Construction Co., Inc., and Samuel McLean Construction Company, Scott M. Waldron, Vermelle Roland Fagan, Individually and as Executrix of the Estate of Wylie H. Fagan, L.G. Funderburk, Herbert L. Benson, Jr., T.H. Casey, Equitable Leasing Corp., Marsh Furniture Company, Inc. and Coronet Industries, Inc., Of which EQUITABLE LEASING CORP., Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

October 9, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. McCutchen and Herbert W. Hamilton, of Whaley, McCutchen & Blanton, Columbia, for appellant.

Roy D. Bates, of Marchant, Bates, Todd & Barber, Columbia, for respondents.


October 9, 1980.

LEWIS, Chief Justice:

This appeal concerns a dispute between two lending institutions as to the title of appliances. Equitable prevailed before the special master. The lower court judge reversed, holding that the contractor who sold the appliances to Equitable never owned the property; thus negating the validity of Equitable's title. The numerous exceptions raise the primary question of title to the appliances used and to be used in the apartment...

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