McCaskill v. . Lancashire
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ActioN tried at Fall Term, 1879, of Cumberland Superior Court, before Seymour, J. The defendant filed a demurrer to the complaint, which was sustained and the plaintiff appealed. The facts are embodied in the opinion of this court.
1Opinion of the CourtDillard, J.
The plaintiffs being creditors of the debtor partners trading under the name and style of J. W. Lancashire &'Co., in November, 1870, after the death of W. H. Morehead and Melvin Lowery, two of the firm, recovered two judgments against J. W. Lancashire as surviving partner, one in a justice’s court for two hundred dollars and the other in the superior court for a large sum, both of which were docketed in the county in which the lands described in the complaint are situate. . .
The .object of the action is to have a certain alleged equitable interest or estate of J. W. Lancashire & Co. in the…
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