Bridges v. . Moye
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This cause was removed to this Court, from the Court of Equity for Edgecombe County, at Spring Term, 1853. The pleadings and facts necessary to an understanding of the case, are sufficiently stated in the opinion of J,he Court. 1. The bill cannot be sustained. Dozier v. Dozier, 1 Dev, & Bat. 96. 2. The Statute of Limitations protects the defendants.
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This cause was removed to this Court, from the Court of Equity for Edgecombe County, at Spring Term, 1853. The pleadings and facts necessary to an understanding of the case, are sufficiently stated in the opinion of J,he Court. 1. The bill cannot be sustained. Dozier v. Dozier, 1 Dev, & Bat. 96. 2. The Statute of Limitations protects the defendants. Although the statute does not run in favor of a donee by parol gift, because he is a bailee of the donor, yet after an assignment to a distributee of the donee, a possession for three years, gives the distributee a perfect title. Powell v. Powell,…
1Opinion of the CourtPearson, J.
The plaintiffs allege that one Archibald Parker-was indebted to their testator in a large amount — -that the debt was contracted in 1829, and in 1841, a note was executed to secure it; that in 1839, 1840 and 1841, Archibald Parker made deeds of gift to the defendants, his son and his two sons-in-law, for several slaves, with intent to avoid the payment of his debts. In 1847 Parker died, and soon after his death the plaintiff sued his administrator, and recovered judgment for $2,327 for his debt, and $653 for his damages ; and inasmuch as it was found by the jury that the administrator had…
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