Legal Opinion

Treadaway v. Payne.

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided December 22, 1900PublishedCited by 5 opinions

Civil Action by Elizabeth Treadaway, Tempie Lunsford, and Levi Lunsford against James Payne and R. E. Payne, heard by Judge A. L. Goble and a jury, at Fall Term, 1899, of Madison Superior Court. Erom judgment for defendants, the plaintiffs appealed.

1Opinion of the CourtMontgomjgey, J.

This action seems to have been commenced under chap. 6 of the Acts of 1893, but was tried as an action for the possession of the land mentioned in the complaint. The plaintiff Tempie Lunsford claimed the land under the will of her father, Daniel Payne, which was probated on the 30th day of September, 1889, before the Clerk •of Madison County; the testator having died on the 5th of the same month and year. The defendants’ claim to the land is under a deed executed by the testator a few months before his death, and registered after his death. The plaintiff, in her complaint, alleged that the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Allen v. . AllenSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1897

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Tripp v. Nobles.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1904
  2. North Carolina National Bank v. BarbeeSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1963
  3. West v. WestMississippi Supreme Court · 1923
  4. Tripp v. Nobles.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1904
  5. Wright v. . WrightSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1930

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