South Carolina loses claim to Civil War papers

Possession is nine-tenths of the law. That layperson’s legal maxim was the decisive factor in a dispute over a collection of papers from two Civil War-era South Carolina governors. In a decision handed down late last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit said the state had failed to overcome the presumption that ...

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South Carolina loses claim to Civil War papers

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