42 S.C. 424 | S.C. | 1894
The opinion of the court was delivered by
It seems that on the 14th day of October, 1890, the defendant, J. G. Mayfield, borrowed of the plaintiff $700, and executed a bond to evidence and secure such loan. As security he pledged to the plaintiff seven shares of the capital stock of the building and loan association named as plaintiff, and also executed to it a mortgage on a certain lot of land
After these proceedings, the present plaintiff instituted an action for the sale of the seven shares of stock pledged to it, and a foreclosure of the mortgage of the house and lot, and to this action the said J. G. Mayfield, P. A. Gardner, and his judgment creditors were all made parties defendant. In this action no contest is made with the plaintiff. All parties to the action concede that the plaintiff is entitled to the sale of the stock and the foreclosure of the mortgage by a sale, &c.; but the judgment creditors of the defendant, P. A. Gardner, say that while all this is true, still they have an equity to require the plaintiff to have applied to the satisfaction of its debt the seven shares of stock, and then to require the balance of the plaintiff’s debt paid out of the $1,000 homestead of defendant Gardner. The defendant Gardner lustily denies this equity. When the cause came on to be heard by his honor, Judge Wallace, at the Fall Term, 1893, of the Court of Common Pleas for Spartanburg, he decided that the judgment creditors of P. A. Gardner did have the equity they contended for, and he decreed accordingly.
From this decree, the defendant, P. A. Gardner, now appeals;
It is the judgment of this court, that the judgment of the Circuit Court be affirmed; and it is ordered, that the cause be remanded to the Circuit Court for such further proceedings as may be necessary.