Barber-Paschal Lumber Co. v. Boushall
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeax, by defendant from Oonnor, J., at October Term, 1914, of Lee. Civil action to recover damages for breach of a written contract to convey land.
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Appeax, by defendant from Oonnor, J., at October Term, 1914, of Lee. Civil action to recover damages for breach of a written contract to convey land. The contract, dated 10 October, 1913, was in the form of a bond for $500, to be void on condition that defendant conveyed to plaintiff by good and sufficient deed a tract of land in Chatham County, N. C., described as follows: “A certain parcel of real estate situated in Chatham County, State of North Carolina, and bounded by the Foushee lands and Deep River, and commonly known as the McIntosh tract, containing 371 acres, more or less, belonging…
1Opinion of the CourtHoke, J.
The facts in evidence tended to show that The American Iron and Steel Company owned two adjoining tracts of land in the county of Chatham, known as the Eoushee tract and the McIntosh tract, the divisional line between them originally running from Deep River north to a pond on the public road and, for a part of the distance, along an “old hedge-row,” and that on the McIntosh place, near this line, was a large body of timber, 2% or 3 million feet; that some time after acquiring the land, the precise date not given, the company ran a new line' dividing the property and by which the timber was…
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