Saunders v. . Lee
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This is a civil ACTION which was tried - before Montgomery, /., at Spring Term, 1888, of Gates Superior Court. William H. Lee, under whom the parties to the action claim, on September 12th, 1867, by deed, and for the recited consideration of sixteen hundred dollars, conveyed the tract of land described in the complaint to Mills H. Eure,' who, on May 8, 1880, for the alleged consideration of twenty-fiv.e hundred dollars,-in the like manner conveyed, to Benjamin Saunders.
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This is a civil ACTION which was tried - before Montgomery, /., at Spring Term, 1888, of Gates Superior Court. William H. Lee, under whom the parties to the action claim, on September 12th, 1867, by deed, and for the recited consideration of sixteen hundred dollars, conveyed the tract of land described in the complaint to Mills H. Eure,' who, on May 8, 1880, for the alleged consideration of twenty-fiv.e hundred dollars,-in the like manner conveyed, to Benjamin Saunders. Shortly thereafter the. latter* -entered upon the premises, and held possession until, .his death, when the plaintiff, his…
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, C. J.,
(after stating the case.) The case stated on appeal is very vague, but we understand from it and the course of the argument here that the instruction proceeds upon the assumed necessity of the plaintiff’s offering further proof of the consideration of the deeds in order to a verdict in his favor.
If there were no error in this view of the law, it is plain the plaintiff was entitled to recover against the original defendants, who are admitted to be trespassers in the unlawful possession of the land, damages for the use and detention up to the period of the purchase and conveyance…
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