McQueen v. Peoples National Bank
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil action, heard at May Term, 1892, of the Superior Court of Cumberland County, before Boykin, J. The plaintiff filed a verified complaint, in which she alleged' that on or about the 19th of April, 1888, she caused to be deposited in the defendant bank “a large sum of money,, about five thousand five hundred dollars, the exact amount of which she does not now remember, but is informed and. believes it was five thousand four hundred and seventy-five-dollars and…
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Civil action, heard at May Term, 1892, of the Superior Court of Cumberland County, before Boykin, J. The plaintiff filed a verified complaint, in which she alleged' that on or about the 19th of April, 1888, she caused to be deposited in the defendant bank “a large sum of money,, about five thousand five hundred dollars, the exact amount of which she does not now remember, but is informed and. believes it was five thousand four hundred and seventy-five-dollars and seventy-eight cents ($5,475.78);” that subse•quently,on November 18,1889,she drew a check for $2,088.16, which was paid, but still…
1Opinion of the Court
Avbky, J.:
Commenting upon the assignment as error of the ruling of a trial judge refusing to grant a continuance, the Court said, in Johnson v. Maxwell, 87 N. C., 20, “ we refer to this exception, not pressed here as a reviewable error, only to say that in the flight of repeated decisions, and with the ■ law well settled, we are unable to understand why it should be the subject-matter of appeal.” The ancient mode of trial by jury, which is declared sacred (Const., Art. I, § 19), is that which comes to us as an inheritance from the mother country. The Constitution confers the right to demand…
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