Dickens v. Perkins.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActiON by Mary A. Dickens and others against Helen Perkins and others, heard by Judge O. A. Jones and a jury at November Term, 1902, of the Superior Court of Halifax County.
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
This action was brought to enforce a parol trust. The plaintiffs allege in their complaint that in 1871 W. M. Perkins entered into a parol contract with Melissa I. Dickens, whereby he promised and agreed that, if she would pay him the sum of $200, lie would buy a tract of land, which is known as the Emsley Dickens home tract, at the judicial sale then about- to be made by the administrator of Emsley Dickens, for the use and benefit of Mary Jane Dickens during her life, and at her death the remainder in fee for the use and benefit of the children of said Melissa J. Dickens, and that he would…
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