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Hopkins Vs. Mclure

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Mar 03, 1890

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  1. De Saussure Vs. Gaillard US Supreme Court · Apr 30, 1888
  2. U.S. 380 (1890) U.S. Supreme Court Hopkins v. McLure
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  3. U.S. 380 (1890) Hopkins v. McLure
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  4. opinion that the referee held that both of these debts were preferred claims on the authority of the case of Edwards v. Sanders
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  5. This provision was construed by the constitutional court of South Carolina, in 1822, in the case of Tunno v. Happoldt
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  6. and intent had terminated, and otherwise left the note as it stood before, still a simple contract. In Kinard v. Young
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  7. by the nature of the instrument which the mortgage was given to secure, the court following the decision in Tunno v. Happoldt
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  8. In 1875, the case of Edwards v. Sanders
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  9. to priority of payment out of the general estate, over specialty and simple contract debts. While the case of Edwards v. Sanders
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  10. claims. Before the case came on to be heard upon exceptions to the report of the referee, the case of Piester v. Piester
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  11. exhausted the mortgage ranked according to the grade of the demand secured by it, thus approving the case of Kinard v. Young
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  12. and overruling that of Edwards v. Sanders
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  13. The court cited the cases of Tunno v. Happoldt
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  14. and Kinard v. Young
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  15. the doctrine asserted by them was regarded as the settled construction of the act of 1789 until the case of Edwards v. Sanders
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  16. the conclusion in the present case that the mortgages in question came under the operation of the decision in Piester v. Piester
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  17. S.C. 559 The point was taken by the appellants in the Supreme Court of South Carolina that the case of Piester v. Piester
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  18. at the time of the making of the contract of Hopkins, Dwight & Co., the law, as then declared by the case of Edwards v. Sanders
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  19. be ranked as mortgages, and as such be entitled to priority over specialty debts, and that the decision in Piester v. Piester
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  20. the supreme court said that the construction placed on the provisions of the act of 1789 by the decision in Piester v. Piester
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  21. was the same as that laid down in Tunno v. Happoldt
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  22. that the law stood unquestioned down to the time of the decision in Edwards v. Sanders
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  23. that, from what was said in Piester v. Piester
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  24. legislature, by the act of 1878, had shown its dissatisfaction with the construction adopted in the case of Edwards v. Sanders
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  25. On the question whether the decision in Piester v. Piester
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  26. because it would impair the obligation of a contract or divest rights vested under the law, as declared in Edwards v. Sanders
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  27. years by decisions of both of the courts of final resort in the state, in accordance with the view declared in Piester v. Piester
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  28. the ground that the law of South Carolina, under the act of 1789, was such as it had always been held to be in Tunno v. Happoldt
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  29. Kinard v. Young
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  30. and Piester v. Piester
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  31. and that the law as so declared had always been the law, and was not varied or changed by anything decided in Edwards v. Sanders
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  32. question is presented by the record. This view is in accordance with the decisions of this Court in Kreiger v. Shelby
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  33. U. S. 216 , and Hale v. Akers
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  34. U.S. Supreme Court Hopkins v. McLure
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  35. of Edwards v. Sanders
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  36. of Tunno v. Happoldt
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  37. In Kinard v. Young
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  38. Tunno v. Happoldt
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  39. of Piester v. Piester
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  40. of Kinard v. Young
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  41. Piester v. Piester
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  42. Edwards v. Sanders
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  43. Kreiger v. Shelby
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  44. and Hale v. Akers
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