South Carolina Conversion Law
<h1> United States of America v. Cameron Jones </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Columbia, South Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of a firearm by a felon and possession with intent to distribute cocaine. </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Kershaw County Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Gun and Drug Offenses</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b... More...
$0 (02-21-2025 - SC)<h1> United States of America v. Contaurus Dermont Smith </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center><br> Columbia, South Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Gun Charge Following Accidental Shooting </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Columbia Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Gun Charge Following Accidental Shooting</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Contaurus Dermont ... More...
$0 (11-25-2024 - SC)<h1> United States of America v. Chad Lavell Williams, Jr. </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> <br> Columbia, South Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Drug and Gun Charges </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Orangeburg Man Sentenced To 7 Years in Federal Prison for Drug and Gun Charges</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Chad Lavell Williams, Jr., 30, of Orangeb... More...
$0 (07-19-2024 - SC)Timothy Nelson Evans a/k/a Timothy N. Evans a/k/a Timothy Evans a/k/a Tim Evans v. State of Mississippi <table> <td>
Evidence adduced at trial revealed that in the spring of 2009, Evans moved into<br> Holling’s home as her tenant. The two previously had been romantically involved, but that<br> relationship had ceased before Evans moved in with seventy-year-old Holling. On the<br> morning of January 2, 2010, fifty-two-year-old Evans and his friend, Joe Thomas, were on<br> the way to perform a carpet-cleaning jo... More...
$0 (06-19-2017 - SC)Adrienne Hennes v. John Shaw
This appeal stems from a previously-litigated dispute between two upstate realtors over the sale and commission of a parcel of real estate on Lake Keowee. John Shaw (Mr. Shaw) claims the circuit court committed reversible error when it denied his motion for directed verdict on Adrienne Hennes' (Ms. Hennes) claim for breach of contract and when it granted Ms. Hennes' motion for directed verdict on... More...
$0 (02-29-2012 - SC)Sandra C. Smith v. Tracy E. Widener
Karl Stephen Brehmer, o In this appeal we hold that when a plaintiff seeks actual and punitive damages arising out of the same injury, the two types of damages are part of the same claim for purposes of determining whether a nonsettling defendant is entitled to a setoff to account for funds paid to the plaintiff by a settling defendant. We reverse the circuit court's order to the contrary. <br><... More...
$0 (03-28-2012 - SC)Adrienne Hennes v. John Shaw
This appeal stems from a previously-litigated dispute between two upstate realtors over the sale and commission of a parcel of real estate on Lake Keowee. John Shaw (Mr. Shaw) claims the circuit court committed reversible error when it denied his motion for directed verdict on Adrienne Hennes' (Ms. Hennes) claim for breach of contract and when it granted Ms. Hennes' motion for directed verdict on... More...
$0 (02-29-2012 - SC)Barbara Solley v. Navy Federal Credit Union
Barbara Solley filed suit for conversion, slander of title, and negligence against Navy Federal Credit Union (the Bank) after Jimmy L. Mullins, Sr., with whom she owned a house, obtained a mortgage on the house from the Bank without her knowledge. The Bank was held in default after it failed to answer Solley's complaint. After the special referee required Solley to elect the theory of damages, s... More...
$0 (02-01-2012 - SC)Sandra C. Smith v. Tracy E. Widener
In this appeal we hold that when a plaintiff seeks actual and punitive damages arising out of the same injury, the two types of damages are part of the same claim for purposes of determining whether a nonsettling defendant is entitled to a setoff to account for funds paid to the plaintiff by a settling defendant. We reverse the circuit court's order to the contrary. <br><br>I. Facts and Proced... More...
$0 (03-28-2012 - SC)Edward Lee Elmore v. Jon Ozmint
For nearly thirty years, Edward Lee Elmore, a mentally retarded handyman, has been behind bars, mainly on South Carolina's death row, for the January 1982 murder of Dorothy Edwards, an elderly woman who had sporadically employed him. The 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition now on appeal, however, is part of Elmore's very first effort to secure federal habeas corpus relief. The antecedent state proceeding... More...
$0 (11-22-2011 - SC)Debbie McCravy v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Plaintiff Debbie McCravy sued Defendant Metropolitan Life Insurance Company ("MetLife"), alleging, among other things, breach of fiduciary duty, and seeking damages under the "other appropriate equitable relief" provision of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA"), 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(3). The district court granted McCravy summary judgment, but limited her damages to the return of... More...
$0 (05-16-2011 - SC)Holly Woods Association of Residence Owners v. Joe W. Hiller
The plaintiffs in this action were property owners in the Holly Woods Development in Greenville or members of the Holly Woods Association of Residence Owners (the Association). The Association brought suit against the property developers in 2005. After a trial, the jury awarded the Association $971,000 in actual damages for its negligence claim and $1 for the breach of implied warranty of workma... More...
$0 (02-03-2011 - SC)Robert L. Cullen v. J. Bennett McNeal
In this cross-appeal, the Appellants-Respondents (the Homeowners) argue the circuit court erred in (1) considering extrinsic evidence in interpreting the Declarations for Wright's Point; (2) construing the term "Developer"; (3) finding undeveloped land was a part of Wright's Point; (4) finding B. McNeal Partnership, L.P. was a "successor developer"; (5) finding the Developers were entitled to co... More...
$0 (10-06-2010 - Sc)Drury Development Corporation, Plaintiff, v. Foundation Insurance Company, Clarendon National Insurance Company, Tarheel Insurance Management Company, Tarheel Group, Steven M. Mariano, and Lucia Tompkins, Defendants.
We accepted two certified questions from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina. In this case, the plaintiff seeks to pierce the corporate veil in order to hold a liquidated corporation's parents and shareholders liable for the corporation's obligations. The first question asks whether a judgment against the corporation is a prerequisite to an alter ego claim. In th... More...
$0 (11-03-2008 - SC)Randy P. Silver v. Asbstract Pools & Spas, Inc.
Randy Silver (Homeowner) brought an action against Aabstract Pools and Spas, Inc. (Contractor) for breach of contract and conversion. Contractor asserted affirmative defenses and counterclaimed for breach of contract and attorneys' fees. With the consent of the parties, the circuit court referred the matter to the Master-in-Equity who concluded the payment provisions of the contract were ambiguo... More...
$0 (01-16-2008 - SC)Mary Lou Moseley v. Jim Oswald
In this case, Petitioner Mary Lou Moseley filed a conversion action against Respondent Jim Oswald. The trial court granted Respondent's motion for summary judgment, and the court of appeals affirmed on the basis that Petitioner failed to present any evidence that Respondent owned the land on which Petitioner's chattels were stored. Moseley v. Oswald, Op. No. 2005-UP-530 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Sept... More...
$0 (01-22-2008 - SC)Dr. Bruce Skinner v. Tident Medical Center, LLC
Defamation, negligent supersision and conversion claims by Dr. Bruce Skinner, age 51, who claimed that Trident Medical Center accused him of stealing and kept his patient list after firing him. The also claimed that the Medical Center lost his patient list after asking him to turn it over to the defendant.... More...
$30250000 (12-19-2002 - SC)<a href="http://pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=011214.P" target="_new">Joseph Battle v. Seibels Bruce Insurance Company</a>
This appeal primarily presents a subject matter jurisdiction ques- tion with respect to certain claims emanating from a coverage dispute between a homeowner and the South Carolina Insurance Company (SCIC) which involves a flood insurance policy issued under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), see 42 U.S.C. SS 4001- 4129. The claims allege breach of the implied covenant of good faith ... More...
$0 (04-29-2002 - SC)