Jackson v. Beard
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by plaintiffs from Peebles, J., at April Term, 1912, of Cumberland. Civil action to set aside certain deeds and to recover one undivided seventh of a tract of land.
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Appeal by plaintiffs from Peebles, J., at April Term, 1912, of Cumberland. Civil action to set aside certain deeds and to recover one undivided seventh of a tract of land. On the hearing it was properly established that on 21 November, 1907, Nancy Lee Jackson, feme plaintiff, was the owner of one undivided seventh of this tract of land in controversy, the same having descended to her from her father, John C. Beard, and on said day, for a small consideration, executed a paper-writing purporting to be a' valid deed of conveyance to James R. Beard, one of defendants, and on 6 December, 1907. the…
1DissentClark, C. J.
Tbe requirements of Revisal, 952, as to tbe conveyance of real estate by a married woman bave been in every particular scrupulously complied witb. Tbe deed was executed by ber and ber busband witb due proof thereof as to both tbe busband and tbe wife, and ber private examination duly certified. Tbe first cause of action alleging fraud or undue influence is negatived by tbe jury, and there is no appeal on that point.
Tbe plaintiff seeks to set aside tbe deed because be insists that tbe court should write into tbe statute words that are not placed therein by tbe Legislature and which are not in…
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