Wilson v. . Hughes
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ACTION, for the specific recovery of a chattel, tried before Clark, Judge, and a jury, at August Terra, 1885, of Waice Superior Court. The following is the case settled upon appeal for this Court: “When the case was called for trial, plaintiff moved the Court for judgment on the pleadings, upon the ground that defendant’s answer admitted that plaintiffs were the owners and entitled to the possession of the mare, the property in controversy.
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Civil ACTION, for the specific recovery of a chattel, tried before Clark, Judge, and a jury, at August Terra, 1885, of Waice Superior Court. The following is the case settled upon appeal for this Court: “When the case was called for trial, plaintiff moved the Court for judgment on the pleadings, upon the ground that defendant’s answer admitted that plaintiffs were the owners and entitled to the possession of the mare, the property in controversy. The motion was denied and plaintiffs excepted. One Thos. G. Jenkins was called as a tales juror and was challenged by defendant for cause, the cause…
1Opinion of the CourtMerrimoN, J.
(after stating the facts). We observe that this is called an “action of claim and delivery.” Properly and strictly speaking, there is no such action. The action commonly so-called is an action to recover the possession of personal property — some specific chattel — and is of the nature of the action of detinue under the common law method of procedure. “Claim and delivery of personal property” is a provisional remedy, incident and ancillary, but not essential to the action. The object of such incidental provision, is to enable the plaintiff, upon giving an undertaking in double the value of…
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