Walton v. . Bristol
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil Action for the immediate possession of certain promissory notes, claimed as tbe property of plaintiff, and held by defendant L. A. Bristol, receiver of the Piedmont Bank of Morganton, tried before McNeill, J., at Spring Term, 1899, of the Superior Court of BuRKe County.
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Civil Action for the immediate possession of certain promissory notes, claimed as tbe property of plaintiff, and held by defendant L. A. Bristol, receiver of the Piedmont Bank of Morganton, tried before McNeill, J., at Spring Term, 1899, of the Superior Court of BuRKe County. Jury trial was waived, and the facts were found by his Honor, who rendered judgment- against the plaintiff, and she excepted and appealed to the Supreme Court- The facts found by his Honor are fully recapitulated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
MontgomuRY, <T.
This is an action on the part of the plaintiffs to recover of the defendants the possession of certain personal property consisting of certain promissory notes and another paper writing mentioned in the complaint; one of the notes being in the sum of $1,250, executed on the 18th March, 1893, by S. Huffman, L. A. Bristol, J. M. Huffman & Co.,and -T. H. Pearson, to- J. V. Blackwell, or order, with certain credits endorsed thereon. The other note was in the sum of $615,executed by A. R. Buffaloe and C. E. Buffaloe to L.A. Bristol. The last-mentioned note was hypothecated by the…
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