Wittson v. Dowling
Supreme Court of North Carolina
CONTROVERSY without action, beard.and determined before Lane, J., at March Term, 1920, of Mecelenburg. The question presented in this ease is the right of plaintiffs to collect the purchase money for a parcel of land in the corporate limits of the city of Charlotte which plaintiffs, heirs at law of Samuel Whittkowski, deceased, have contracted to sell to defendants for $20,000, on condition that plaintiffs could make an indefeasible fee-simple title to said land, including…
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CONTROVERSY without action, beard.and determined before Lane, J., at March Term, 1920, of Mecelenburg. The question presented in this ease is the right of plaintiffs to collect the purchase money for a parcel of land in the corporate limits of the city of Charlotte which plaintiffs, heirs at law of Samuel Whittkowski, deceased, have contracted to sell to defendants for $20,000, on condition that plaintiffs could make an indefeasible fee-simple title to said land, including the portion of the land designated as Meadow’s Street and other streets and alleys shown thereon, as they appear in a…
1Opinion of the CourtHoke, J.
Plaintiffs, devisees and heirs at law of Samuel Whittkow-ski, deceased, having contracted to sell to defendants a certain piece of land, now within the corporate limits of the city of Charlotte, for $20,000, and defendants resisting recovery on the alleged ground that plaintiffs are not in position to make a free and unincumbered fee-simple title, as required by the stipulations of the contract, the pertinent facts affecting the validity of the title offered are set forth in the case agreed as follows:
*544“Tbat in 1900 said Samuel "Wittkowski owned a tract of land lying in the then suburbs of…
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