F. A. McNinch v. . John a Ramsay
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a civil action founded on a note for money payable on the condition recited in the syllabus and was tried on demurrer to the complaint before His Honor Judge Moore, at July Special Term, 1871, of Mecklenburg Superior Court. His Honor sustained the demurrer, and the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtReatos, J.
In Chapman v. Wacaser 64, N. C. R., 532, the-words in the bond were, “Ten days after peace is made between the United States and the Confederate States.’" <fcc., And it was held that the bond was payable ten days'after the war ended and peace existed, without regard to the manner in which peace was brought about. The Court were not unanimous in that opinion, but we adhere to it. In that case it is said, that if the bond had been as this is, in the words of the Confederate Treasury notes, the decision would have been different.
In the case before us the words of the bond are, “six months after…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Chapman v. . WacaserSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1870
3Cited by1 opinion
- Blount v. . BlountSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1816