Benbow v. . Moore
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Special proceeding- for the partition of land and assignment of dower, commenced before the Cleric of the Superior Court of Guilford County and transferred to the Court in term, and tried upon a case agreed at December Term, 1892, before Connor, J. The cause being duly called for trial, the jury chosen and impaneled, and the pleadings read, it was suggested by counsel that, as the controversy was one presenting a ques~ tion of law, it should be submitted to the Court upon a…
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Special proceeding- for the partition of land and assignment of dower, commenced before the Cleric of the Superior Court of Guilford County and transferred to the Court in term, and tried upon a case agreed at December Term, 1892, before Connor, J. The cause being duly called for trial, the jury chosen and impaneled, and the pleadings read, it was suggested by counsel that, as the controversy was one presenting a ques~ tion of law, it should be submitted to the Court upon a case agreed, which was assented to, and immediately a statement was prepared by the counsel for the parties and handed…
1Opinion of the Court
Siiepi-ierb, 0. J.:
The defendant Mary A. Moore alleges that the mill tract mentioned in the pleadings was purchased by her husband, IT. C. Moore, with money belonging to her separate estate, and she prays the Court to declare a trust in her favor against the heirs at law of the said H. 0. Moore, to whom the legal title descended. The money used in the purchase of the land was the share to . which the said Mary was entitled in the proceeds of certain' lands in Tennessee which were sold under the provisions of the will of her uncle, John Cunningham, and was received by her husband subsequently…
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