PERRY v. HEIRS AT LAW AND DISTRIBUTEES OF GADSDEN

No. 24141.

449 S.E.2d 250 (1994)

Alice A.G.G. PERRY, Emily Mitchell, Eliza Tremble, and Doris Green, Respondents, v. HEIRS AT LAW AND DISTRIBUTEES OF Charles GADSDEN, C.H. Gadsden, C.S. Gadsden, Louise Gadsden, Cain Gadsden, John Gadsden, Lula Nelson, Louis Gadsden, Herman Gadsden, Carrie Gadsden, Estella Gadsden, Mattie Gadsden, United States Department of Agriculture, Farmers Home Administration, South Carolina Electric & Gas Co., Hazel Point Partnership, Luther Major, Martha Major, Queenie Taylor, Dolly Fripp, Beaufort-Jasper Comprehensive Health Services, Inc.; also, the following persons believed to be living: Cecil J. Gaston, Jr., a/k/a Cecil J. Gaston, Cornelius Gaston a/k/a Cornelius Gadsen, Herman Gaston, Lisa Roacher, Linda Mason, Herbert Mason, Willis Gaston, and Louise Gaston a/k/a Louise Gadson, and all heirs at law, devisees, or persons unknown claiming by, under or through any of the above-named persons, John Doe or Mary Roe being fictitious names designating a class of persons, or a legal entity, infants, incompetents, persons in the military service, if any, known or unknown, who may be an heir, distributee, devisee, issue, alienee, administrator, executor, creditor, successor or assign, having or claiming to have any right, title, interest, estate in or lien upon the real estate in or lien upon the real estate described in the complaint herein, Defendants, Of whom Cecil J. Gaston, Jr., is the Petitioner.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided September 6, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James B. Richardson, Jr., of Svalina, Richardson & Smith, Columbia, for petitioner.

Gary D. Brown, Ridgeland, and C. Scott Graber, of Graber and Baldwin, Beaufort, for respondents.


PER CURIAM:

Petitioner asks this Court for writ of certiorari to review the Court of Appeal's decision in Perry v. Heirs at Law & Distributees of Gadsden, ___ S.C. ___, 437 S.E.2d 174 (Ct.App.1993). We grant the petition, dispense with further briefing, and affirm as modified.

In its opinion, the Court of Appeals found that the record does not support petitioner's claim of title under adverse possession because...

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