King v. . Dudley
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ACTION tried before Shufo-rd, J., and a jury, at March Term, 1893, of Pitt Superior Court, for the recovery of certain crops and personal property described in the complaint. The facts necessary to an understanding of the decision of the Court are set out in the opinion of Associate Justice Burwell.
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Civil ACTION tried before Shufo-rd, J., and a jury, at March Term, 1893, of Pitt Superior Court, for the recovery of certain crops and personal property described in the complaint. The facts necessary to an understanding of the decision of the Court are set out in the opinion of Associate Justice Burwell. There was verdict for the plaintiff that she was the owner and entitled to the possession of the five crops claimed in her amended complaint, and of the personal property claimed by her. The jury further found that the receiver leased the Bensboro plantation for the year 1889 to John M.…
1Opinion of the Court
Burwell, J.:
The plaintiff, in her first complaint, alleges that she was the owner of certain stock, wagons and farming tools, which she described in the ninth article of that complaint, and of all the crops grown on a certain plantation known as the Bensboro tract in the year 1889, and that the possession of said property was wrongfully withheld from her by her husband and S. V. Joyner. This land had belonged to her former husband, B. S. Atkinson, and upon his death had descended to three infant children. The mansion house of said Atkinson was on this plantation, and no dower had been…
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