Den. Ex Dem. Skinner v. Moore
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was an action of ejectment brought to recover the possession of a house and lot in the town of Edenton, tried at Chowan, on the last Spring Circuit, before his Honor Judge Dick.
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This was an action of ejectment brought to recover the possession of a house and lot in the town of Edenton, tried at Chowan, on the last Spring Circuit, before his Honor Judge Dick. The lessor of the plaintiff, after showing that the premises described in his declaration, and then in the occupation of the defendant, had formerly belonged to James R. Creecy, produced in evidence the copy of the record of a judgment, obtained against the said Creecy in the County Court of Perquimons county, in favour of himself. He then showed an execution issued on the said judgment, a sale by the sheriff,…
1Opinion of the Court
Ruffin, Chief Justice.
The particular ground on which his Honor held the judgment in the suit by attachment to be void, and that the lessor of the plaintiff derived no title by his purchase at the execution sale, is, that Creecy, as shown by evidence, had not lived in Perqui- mons, but was a resident of Chowan for several years before and up to the time at which he absconded; and that the plaintiff in that suit stands affected by every irregularity in the process, and the subsequent proceedings thereon. The record, however, states other exceptions taken by the defendant to the validity of that…
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