Hawkins v. . Pepper
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil actioN, tried before Brown, Judge, and a jury, Fall Term, 1895, of Stoees Superior Court. The-defendant, Pepper, was allowed to come in and be made a defendant, as the alleged landlord of the defendant Martin, claiming the property in dispute ; whereupon the trespass was claimed to have been committed by virtue of a certain paper writing or contract, under seal, executed between the plaintiff and said Pepper, a copy of which is set up in the defendant’s answer, and…
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Civil actioN, tried before Brown, Judge, and a jury, Fall Term, 1895, of Stoees Superior Court. The-defendant, Pepper, was allowed to come in and be made a defendant, as the alleged landlord of the defendant Martin, claiming the property in dispute ; whereupon the trespass was claimed to have been committed by virtue of a certain paper writing or contract, under seal, executed between the plaintiff and said Pepper, a copy of which is set up in the defendant’s answer, and marked “Exhibit A.” The following issues were submitted without objection : “1. Were the words ‘five years,’ whereby the…
1Opinion of the Court
Avery, J.:
It is a well settled principle that where an estate or interest in land is conveyed for a nominal consideration and is subject to be defeated by failure to perform a condition subsequent which constitutes the consideration on the part of the grantor for executing the deed conveying it, a reasonable time will be allowed for its performance, after which th'e courts will adjudge that the grantee, if he has taken no steps looking to and giving promise of a compliance with it, has abandoned the purpose to perform it. Ross v. Tremaine, 2 Met., (Mass.) 495; Allen v. Howe, 105 Mass., 241; 6…
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