Legal Opinion

Buie v. . Scott

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided September 5, 1890PublishedCited by 6 opinions

This Was a civil action' to recover land, tried before Brown, J., and a jury, at May Term, 1890, of Cumberland Superior Court. The defendants appealed. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion.

1Opinion of the Court

Clark:, J.:

The plaintiff seeks to recover the land in controversy as purchaser at a sale under an execution issued on a judgment in which he was plaintiff. It appears from the evidence offered by the plaintiff that no homestead was laid off, and that this land was all that the judgment debtor owned. The judgment, obtained before a magistrate and docketed in the Superior Court, was dated April 1,1873, and bore interest from that date. It did not show the date of the indebtedness on which it had been rendered. The original papers before the Justice, and the note on which judgment had been…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Mobley v. . GriffinSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1889
  2. Hussey v. . KirkmanSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1886
  3. Williams v. . ClouseSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1884
  4. Mebane v. . LaytonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1883
  5. McCracken v. . AdlerSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1887

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3Cited by6 opinions

  1. McEwan v. BrownSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1918
  2. Fulton v. RobertsSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1893
  3. McEwan v. . BrownSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1918
  4. Fulton v. . RobertsSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1893
  5. Bright v. . MarcomSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1897

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