Vann v. Edwards
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by T. E. Vann, administrator of Darius Edwards, against D. K. Edwards, beard by Judge T. A. McNeill and a jury, at Fall Term, 1900, of tbe Superior Court of ITerteoRD ■County. Erom a judgment for tbe plaintiff, tbe defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
Tbe note, for tbe recovery of which this action ivas brought, was originally the sole and separate pioperty of tbe wife of tbe plaintiff’s intestate, who was the mother of the defendant, and who died before her husband, tbe father of the defendant. The note' wias executed by the defendant to his mother and by her was endorsed and transferred to the defendant without her husband’s knowledge or consent. Tf that was the defendant’s only claim to the note it would avail him nothing (Walton v. Bristol, 125 N. C., 419), and it would have passed to the husband as his prop*426erty upon the death of his…
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