Featherston v. . Merrimon
Supreme Court of North Carolina
AotioN beard by Guión, J., at September Term, 1907, of Buncombe. This is an action to enjoin the defendants from selling, under a deed of trust from Samantba C. Wilson to J. G-. Mer-rimon, executed to secure a debt of $500 to J. IT. Merrimon, a parcel of land in the city of Asheville, fronting on Main Street and particularly described in a deed from Janies AV.
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AotioN beard by Guión, J., at September Term, 1907, of Buncombe. This is an action to enjoin the defendants from selling, under a deed of trust from Samantba C. Wilson to J. G-. Mer-rimon, executed to secure a debt of $500 to J. IT. Merrimon, a parcel of land in the city of Asheville, fronting on Main Street and particularly described in a deed from Janies AV. Patton to Tenison Cheshire, and by the latter conveyed to his daughter, Samantha Cheshire, who married John W. Wilson in 1851. AVilson and his wife separated, it appears, about 1861. The plaintiff is the surviving child of that…
1Opinion of the Court
AValKee, J.,
after stating the facts: The decision of this case may well depend upon what is the true construction of the deed of J. M. Israel to George W. Neely, dated 16 April, 1861, and the verdict and the judgment'of the court in the case of Featherston v. Wilson and others, which was rendered at March Term, 1898, of the Superior Court of Buncombe County. Samantha C. Wilson executed a deed to J. G. Mer-rimon, as trustee, to secure a debt of $500 due to James IT. Merrimon for money borrowed, the land conveyed by that deed being the lot which she got from her father, Tenison Cheshire, who…
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