Legal Opinion

Ray v. Long.

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided June 10, 1903PublishedCited by 14 opinions

ActioN by H. M. Ray and wife against Jacob' A. Long, beard by Judge T. A. McNeill and a jury, at September Term, 1902, of the Superior Court of AlamaNce County. From a judgment for the plaintiffs, the defendant appealed.

1Opinion of the Court

CLARK, C. J., and MONTGOMERY, J., dissenting. This case was before us at February Term, 1901, and is reported in128 N.C. 90. In that opinion the Court says: "The marriage having taken place since 1868, he should have said to the jury, as laid down inKirkpatrick v. Holmes, 108 N.C. 206, and approved in Ross v. Hendrix,110 N.C. 405: `If her separate estate went into the hands of her husband and he invested it in land, taking title in his own name in the absence of any agreement to the contrary, a trust would have resulted to her.' InBriscoe v. Norris, 112 N.C. 676, it is said this equitable…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. Harrison v. . RaySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1891
  2. Bruce v. . NicholsonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1891
  3. Denmark v. Atlantic & North Carolina RailroadSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1890
  4. Pretzfelder v. Merchants Insurance Co. of NewarkSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1898
  5. Tucker v. . SatterthwaiteSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1897

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3Cited by14 opinions

  1. McKinnon, Currie & Co. v. CaulkSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1914
  2. Freeman v. BelferSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1917
  3. Spence v. . Pottery Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1923
  4. Cullom v. KearnsCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1925
  5. Moore v. Greenville Banking & Trust Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1919

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