Slaughter v. . Winfrey
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil Action tried, on appeal from a justice’s court, at Fall Term, 1881, of Wake Superior Court, before Gilmer, J. The action is to recover rent due the plaintiff. Verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $68.25, and judgment for the amount was rendered, with interest and costs of action, and the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The only objection taken to the judgment in the court below and pressed in the argument before us is to so much of it as directs the payment of the costs incurred by the plaintiff in prosecuting her claim for rent out of the fund derived from- the sale of the crop raised upon the rented land. It is insisted that the crop under the amend-atory act of March, 1877 (acts 1876-77, ch. 288,) is liable only for the rent, and that the right to the residue as a part of the exemption allowed the debtor is paramount to the claim for reimbursement of the plaintiff’s costs.
•We think there is no error in…
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