North Carolina Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina, Volume 168Nichols & Gorman, book and job printers, 1915 - Law reports, digests, etc Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina. |
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adverse possession agent agreement alleged answer APPEAL by defendant APPEAL by plaintiff authority bailment Bank breach Brown cause cause of action cited claim Clark common law complaint condition contract contributory negligence conveyed court of equity damages deceased declared deed defendant's duty dying declaration entitled error evidence tending excepted executed facts favor fee simple Filed fire fraud grantor GUANO guilty heirs held homicide indictment indorser injury intent intestate issue judge judgment jury Justice land liable Lumber Company marriage ment mortgage motion negligence nonsuit opinion owner paid parties payment person plaintiff possession Powell principle prisoner proper purchase purpose question railroad company reason record refused reversible error Revisal rule shot statute sufficient Superior Court supra tending to show Term testator testified testimony therein timber tion tract trial trust valid verdict W. H. Davis warranty wife witness
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Page 67 - That for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar cash in hand paid by the party of the second part to the party of the first part...
Page 406 - ... separate estate and property of such female, and shall not be liable for any debts, obligations or engagements of her husband, and may be devised and bequeathed, and with the written assent of her husband, conveyed by her as if she were unmarried.
Page 55 - Comparison of a disputed writing with any writing proved to the satisfaction of the Judge to be genuine, shall be permitted to be made by witnesses ; and such writings, and the evidence of witnesses respecting the same, may be submitted to the Court and Jury as evidence of the genuineness or otherwise of the writing in dispute.
Page 262 - ... whether intended for occupancy by owner or tenant, be or become vacant or unoccupied and so remain for ten days...
Page 559 - A person placing his signature upon an instrument otherwise than as maker, drawer or acceptor, is deemed to be an indorser, unless he clearly indicates by appropriate words his intention to be bound in some other capacity.
Page 390 - ... takes an estate of freehold, legally or equitably, under a deed, will, or other writing, and in the same instrument there is a limitation by way of remainder, either with or without the interposition of another estate, of an interest of the same legal or equitable quality, to his heirs, or heirs of his body, as a class of persons to take in succession, from generation to generation, the limitation to the heirs entitles the ancestor to the whole estate.
Page 648 - ... be held to have assumed the risks of his employment in any case where the violation by such common carrier...
Page 211 - ... rise to the inference or presumption that they had been entered into or done with the intent to do wrong to the general public and to limit the right of individuals, thus restraining the free flow of commerce and tending to bring about the evils, such as enhancement of prices, which were considered to be against public policy.
Page 616 - When a thing which causes injury is shown to be under the management of the defendant, and the accident is such as in the ordinary course of things does not happen if those who have the management use proper care, it affords reasonable evidence, in the absence of explanation by the defendant, that the accident arose from a want of care.
Page 434 - That he is the petitioner herein; that he has read the foregoing petition and knows the contents thereof, and' that the same is true of his own knowledge, except as to the matters therein stated to be alleged on information and belief, and as to those matters he believes it to be true.