Messick v. Fries.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
AotioN by A. E. Messick and others 'against II. W. Fries and II. A. Giersh, beard by Judge E. W. Timberlalce, at November Team, 1900, of -tike Superior Court of Forsyth Oounlby. From a judgment of nonsuit, the plaintiffs appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
TOae defendant Giersik in 1892 was indebted to 'the odder defendant Fries in Hie sum of about $14,000, evidenced by three promissory notes, two of which were executed in 1881, and the oitihea’ in the sum of $8,600, the consideration of the last-mentioned one being the purchase-money agreed to be paid to Fries for the interest of Fries in the stock of goods and merchandise belonging to a partnership of which the defendants were members, the purchase having-been made on the day of the execution of the note for the purchase-money, the 15th of Jully, 1892. To secure all three of the notes,…
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