McNeal Pipe & Foundry Co. v. Woltman, Keith & Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a civil actiox, tried before Hoke, J., and a jury, at the Fall Term, 1898, of YaNok Superior Court. The action was originally begun to recover $10,784.04 due the plaintiff from Woltman, Keith & Co., who had contracted to construct and equip a water-works plant at Henderson for the Henderson Water Supply Company, a corporation now defunct.
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This was a civil actiox, tried before Hoke, J., and a jury, at the Fall Term, 1898, of YaNok Superior Court. The action was originally begun to recover $10,784.04 due the plaintiff from Woltman, Keith & Co., who had contracted to construct and equip a water-works plant at Henderson for the Henderson Water Supply Company, a corporation now defunct. There was a recovery by the plaintiff, and the water supply company and its bondholders came in as defendants, and by consent of all parties the. action was converted into a creditor’s suit to close up the affairs of the water supply company, and…
1Opinion of the Court
MacRae, J.:
Upon the trial the Deane Steam Pump Company offered in evidence the deed of trust from Whitman, Keith & Co. to W. H. S. Burgwyn. Its admission was objected to on the ground that the probate was insufficient, in that it does not show that the deed was executed by a member of the firm, and because it was executed in the firm name with a seal. The objection was overruled, and the appellant excepted.
The first ground of exception is untenable. By statute in this State the powers of notaries public have been extended beyond those which were incident to the office by the -universal…
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