Hodges Bros. v. Lassiter
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ACTION, in the nature of a creditor’s bill, tried before Shipp, Judge, and a jury, at Spring Term, 1885, of Hert-ford Superior Court.
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Civil ACTION, in the nature of a creditor’s bill, tried before Shipp, Judge, and a jury, at Spring Term, 1885, of Hert-ford Superior Court. On November 27th, 1878, H. T. Lassiter & Son, consisting of H. T. Lassiter and Walter T. Lassiter, and conducting a mercantile business in the town of Murfreesboro, becoming involved, and being unable to meet their liabilities, largely due in Baltimore, made an assignment of their entire stock of goods, notes, bonds, bills and credits of every kind, to James S. Whedbee and John S. Dickinson, partners of the firm name of Whedbee & Dickinson, in said city,…
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, C. J.,
(after stating the facts). This brief summary will enable us to proceed to the consideration and disposal of the exceptions found in the record.
lsi Exception. One of the jurors of the regular panel was challenged by the plaintiffs upon the ground that he had a suit pending and at issue in the Court.
The following ate the facts upon which the objection rests, as found by the Judge:
At Spring Term, 1884, a year before the trial, the juror and four others were indicted for an assault with a deadly weapon upon one Braxton Brown, and the prosecution had been since depending without any…
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