Alley v. Howell.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by Mary E. Alley and others against T. J\ Howell, heard by Judge B. B. Peebles and a jury, at the October Term, 1905, of the Superior Court of Iredell. From a judgment for the defendant, the plaintiffs appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtClare, C. J.
This was an action of ejectment, the plaintiffs claiming as heirs-at-law of Susan Ervin, and the defendant as her grantee. In the complaint the plaintiffs alleged and relied upon their legal title only and there being no averment of undue influence, inadequate consideration or fraud in the treaty, the court properly excluded evidence offered to prove such, and also refused prayers based upon the assumption that evidence to that effect had been admitted. There must be allegata as well as probata. The judge properly admitted evidence upon the question of the mental capacity of Susan Ervin to…
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