Threadgill v. . McLendon
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Contract — Agricultural Supplies — Promise to pay debt of another:. Civil Action:, tried at Fall Term, 1876, of AnsoN Superior-Court, before Furches, J. The action was commenced before a Justice of the Peace.,, and brought by appeal to the Superior Court. The plaintiff declared upon a store account of $56.09". which was charged to the defendant, and $100, which was*, charged to one Treadaway who was a cropper of the defendant.
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Contract — Agricultural Supplies — Promise to pay debt of another:. Civil Action:, tried at Fall Term, 1876, of AnsoN Superior-Court, before Furches, J. The action was commenced before a Justice of the Peace.,, and brought by appeal to the Superior Court. The plaintiff declared upon a store account of $56.09". which was charged to the defendant, and $100, which was*, charged to one Treadaway who was a cropper of the defendant. The debt was contracted for supplies and fertilizers-It was admitted that the goods charged in both bills were* received by Treadaway. There was evidence tending to…
1Opinion of the Court
PeaRSON C. J.
The facts in the ease do not put the defendant in a very favorable light. The defendant had a lien on the crop and was bound to furnish his cropper with necessary supplies. To induce the plaintiff’ to furnish his cropper with the goods necessary to enable him to carry on the. .farming operations, the defendant promises the plaintiff, that if he would furnish the goods, he would see that they were paid for. Accordingly, the plaintiff let the defend.ant’s cropper have the goods. At the end of the year, defendant took into his possession the cotton made by his ■cropper, which was…
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