Puffer v. . Lucas

* BURWELL, J., did not sit on the hearing of this appeal. It was alleged by plaintiffs and admitted by defendant that the plaintiffs delivered the machine in controversy to one S. Eifert by a lease contract, which was duly made and registered in New Hanover County 5 December, 1884, which is as follows:

"Know all men by these presents, That I, S. Eifert, No. 16 South Second street, of Wilmington, State of North Carolina, have hired, leased and received of A. D. Puffer Sons Manufacturing Company, of Boston, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for the term, to wit, one year ending 5 December, 1885,…