My Favorite Document that still makes me mad. It's a Lawsuit in the 1870's (26 October 1872) The State of South Carolina Court of County of Marion Common Pleas Crawford Lane Complaint Plantiff for Against Partition of Real Estate James Lane for account Hapsey Porter wife of James Porter & Others Defendants The Complaints of the afore named Plantiff respectfully Shown to the Court: I. That James Lane Sr. late of the aforesaid County and State died on the ____ day of ______ 187_, intestate and left as his heirs at law the following named children to wit. the plantiff James Lane Jr, Sarah Ann Jones, Hapsy Porter wife of James Porter and Priscilla Norton and the following names children of a deceased daughter Penelope Turbeville, to wit, Mary Johnson wife of Samuel Johnson, Ann Smith wife of Hugh G Smith, Asa Turbeville and Stephen Turbeville and the following named children of William Turbeville a deceased son of Penelope Turbeville, to wit, Sarah Ann Turbeville, Joseph Turbeville and Ellen Turbeville, and the following named children of Mary Platt afterwards Mary Moody a deceased daughter to wit, Sarah Louis wife of ___ Louis, Catherine Crawford wife of Hardy Crawford, Mary S Bethea wife of William W Bethea, Mariah Turbeville wife of Jesse Turbeville, and Charlotte Roberts and the following named Great Grand Daughter to wit, Mary Jane Bass the Grand Daughter of Mary Platt and the Daughter of Mary Bass and the following named children of a deceased son Stephen Lane to wit. William J Lane, Samuel N Lane, Nancy Watson wife of Merideth Watson, Hapsy Lane, Elizabeth Lane and Martha Lane, and the following named children of a deceased son John O Lane to wit, Ferdinand Lane, Mary Jane Lane Ginna Lane, John C Lane, Lishy Lane, Hapsy Lane and Rilty Lane and the following named children of a deceased daughter Orphy Lane to wit: James W Turbeville, Mary Ann Turbeville, Hapsy Turbeville and Hamilton Turbeville, and the following named Great Grand children, to wit, Ferdinand Perry and Betty Ann Perry the children of Elizabeth Perry a deceased daughted of Penelope Turbeville, II. That the said James Lane Sr at the time of his death was seized and posessed in his own right of two adjoining tracts of land one containing One Hundred and Twenty acres and the other containing One Hundred and Thirty Nine acres and the whole bounded by the lands of Elisha C Bethea and Samuel Bass III.That several years ago the said James Lane Senior was the legal owner of another tarct of land containing about One Hundred and Thirty Acres which is bounded by the lands of Joseph Allen, Merideth Watson and Calvin Lee and others and that he permitted his son Stephen Lane to go into the possession of the same as the Plantiff understood at the time with the understanding that he would convey the same to his said son Stephen upon his paying him One Thousand Dollars for the same - That the said Stephen Lane remained in the possession of the same till his death in 1862 or 1863 and that his widow Flora Lane, and his children above named have since his death continued in the possession of the same and that as he has been informed and believes the said Stephen Lane in his life time and his widow and children since his death paid only a small amount of the money agreed to be paid for said lands - and the palntiff insist that they have forfited all thier rights to the tract of land as purchased and that it should be partitioned as the other lands of the said James Lane Sr, or at least that the heirs at Law of Stephen Lane should be required to account for the same as an advancement to him so far as the same exceeded the amount paid by him - IIII.That the Pantiff soon after the death of his late father took out letters of administration upon his estate and as enough in his lands with which to pay all the debths of the estate and is ready to account for his administration of the same as this honorable court may direct Whereforee the Plantiff ask judgement that he may be permitted to account and that a partition and division of the said three tracts land according to the respective rights of all the said parties may be had or if a partition cannot be had without material injury to those rights then for a sale of said premises and a division of the proceed between the parties according to their respective legal rights after the payment of all necessary cost in this action and that if the heirs at Law of Stephen Lane hold the last described tract of land that they may have to account for the same as an advancement to the said Stephen Lane by his said father. Johnson & Johnson Atty for the Plantiff