Odom v. . Riddick
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Insanity — Idiots and Lunatics — Notice—Purchaser for Value— Evidence — Burden of Proof — Fraud—Void and Voidable Conveyances. This is a civil ACTION for the recovery of the possession of the land described in the complaint, and for damages for its unlawful detention, tried before MacRae, J., upon issues found by a jury and exceptions to a referee’s report, at Fall Term, 1888, of Gates Superior Court.
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Insanity — Idiots and Lunatics — Notice—Purchaser for Value— Evidence — Burden of Proof — Fraud—Void and Voidable Conveyances. This is a civil ACTION for the recovery of the possession of the land described in the complaint, and for damages for its unlawful detention, tried before MacRae, J., upon issues found by a jury and exceptions to a referee’s report, at Fall Term, 1888, of Gates Superior Court. Prior to the 21st day of February, 1866, Oliver Odom was seized in fee-simple of the land in controversy, known as the “ Walton Place,” containing about five hundred acres and situate in Gates…
1Opinion of the Court
Clark, J.:
The reference was by consent. By its terms' the referee was vested “ with power, sitting as a chancellor, to decide upon the facts and all matters of law and equity-arising upon the pleadings and testimony, with liberty to either party to except as to the referee’s rulings on such mat-' ters of law and equity, and to appeal therefrom.” The parties reserved the right to except only to the referee’s rulings as to the law. By any reasonable construction, his findings of fact were to be conclusive. He found as a fact that the defendants purchased the land for value, and without notice…
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