Ward v. . Anderson
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil actior tried at March Term, 1892, of Halifax Superior Court, Brown, J., presiding, upon the following agreed statement of facts: “On the-day of March, 1882, Edward Anderson and wife Letitia and Matilda A. Sexton executed their note to John Beavans, Sr., for $150, and secured the same by mortgage on land (which was registered), and was then the property of said Matilda A. Sexton, a minor.
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Civil actior tried at March Term, 1892, of Halifax Superior Court, Brown, J., presiding, upon the following agreed statement of facts: “On the-day of March, 1882, Edward Anderson and wife Letitia and Matilda A. Sexton executed their note to John Beavans, Sr., for $150, and secured the same by mortgage on land (which was registered), and was then the property of said Matilda A. Sexton, a minor. “On July 10, 1882, said parties made another note for $50 to said Beavans, and secured the same by mortgage on same land, and which was registered. “On the 2d of April, 1885, said parties executed to…
1Opinion of the Court
Avery, J.:
The question presented by this appeal is whether the mortgage deeds executed by an infant, and purporting to convey land to John Beavans to secure two notes, one for $150, the other for $50, were ratified by a recital in reference to the same land in a second conveyance of it to secure debts made after his arrival at the age of twenty-one, and in the following words inserted immediately after the description, to-wit, “ Which said tract is subject to a prior lien in favor of John Beavans, Sr., for the sum of $200,” it being admitted that no other mortgage deeds were ever executed by…
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