Legal Opinion
Farmer v. . Batts
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided June 5, 1880PublishedCited by 55 opinions
Civil Action for specific performance of a contract tried at March Special Term, 1880, of Wilson Superior Court, before Avery, J. The plaintiff submitted to a nonsuit and appealed. The facts are stated in the opinion of this court.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The plaintiff seeks to enforce against the defendants, as assignees with notice of his equity, the specific performance of an executory contract entered into by William Dixon in the words following;
“Received of W. D. Farmer fourteen hundred dollars in full payment of one tract of land containing one hundred and ninety-three acres, more or less, it being the interest in two shares, adjoining the lands of James Barnes, Eli Robbins and others. This 25th day of January 1864.
(Signed). Wm. Dixon.”
On the trial of the issues and with a view to locate and identify the land described, the plaintiff…
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