Fidelity Association v. Lash.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by tbe Fidelity Loan and Investment Company against Frank Lasb and others, heard by Judge T. A. Mc-Neill, at December Term, 1903, of the Superior Court of EoRSYth County. From the judgment there was an appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtClark, C. J.
Oil December 11, 1891, Frank Lash and Emma Alston were tenants in common of a lot of land in Winston, 200 feet wide by 100 feet deep, subject to the life estate therein of Amanda Lash. On that day a judgment before a justice of the peace was docketed against Frank Lash in favor of Vaughan & Pepper for $50.41 and costs, and three others in favor of Gilmer & Mahler, aggregating $496.68 and costs. In December, 1892, Frank and Emma and the life tenant gave a mortgage for $400, for money borrowed, to the plaintiff upon a strip fifty feet wide, running through the center of said lot. The life…
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