Legal Opinion

Thurber. Whyland & Co. v. LaRoque

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided February 5, 1890PublishedCited by 28 opinions

This was a civil ACTION, brought by the plaintiffs, judgment creditors of the defendant W. D. LaRoque, to subject the land described in the fifteenth paragraph of the complaint, or the money expended by the said W. D. LaRoque in purchasing said land, and in placing improvements thereon, to the satisfaction of their judgments, tried by Bynum, J., at the November Term, 1889, of the Superior Court of LeNOIR County, upon the issues set out in the record proper.

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This was a civil ACTION, brought by the plaintiffs, judgment creditors of the defendant W. D. LaRoque, to subject the land described in the fifteenth paragraph of the complaint, or the money expended by the said W. D. LaRoque in purchasing said land, and in placing improvements thereon, to the satisfaction of their judgments, tried by Bynum, J., at the November Term, 1889, of the Superior Court of LeNOIR County, upon the issues set out in the record proper. The facts admitted and found by the jury were that the said W. H. LaRoque had contracted, by parol, on or about the 1st day of January,…

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* Head-notes by AVERY, J. The facts admitted and found by the jury were that the said W. D. LaRoque had contracted, by parol, on or about the 1st day of January, 1886, to purchase said land (being a lot in the town of Kinston) from one Washington, and on the 12th day of May, 1886, paid said Washington $40 in cash in part payment of the purchase-money, and at the same time executed to him three notes jointly with his wife, the feme defendant, for the balance of the purchase-money, and at different dates, one for $110 and two others for $100 each, making a total (303) of $350 as the…

2Cases cited27 opinions

  1. Pippen v. . WessonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1876
  2. Burns v. . McGregorSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1884
  3. Crummen v. . BennetSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1873
  4. Flaum v. Wallace Bros.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1889
  5. Hughes v. . HodgesSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1889

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3Cited by28 opinions

  1. Mims v. MimsSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1982
  2. Kelly Springfield Tire Co. v. LesterSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1925
  3. Carlisle v. . CarlisleSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1945
  4. Weathers v. BordersSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1899
  5. Cobb v. EdwardsSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1895

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