Waddell v. . Hewitt
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This cause was transmitted by consent of parties to the Supreme Court for hearing, from Orange Court of Equity, at Spring Term, 1841. The pleadings and proofs are to be found in the opinion delivered in this court.
1Opinion of the CourtRuffin, C. J.
In the latter part of the year 1838 the plaintiff, P. N. Waddell, made a parol contract with the defendant for the sale of a plantation, situate on the Cape Fear river, near Wilmington, of which the plaintiff and his wife in her right were seized in fee. The price was $4000, payable in four equal instalments; of which the first was to be paid on the first of January, 1839, upon receiving a deed, and the other three to be paid on the 1st of January, 1840, 1841 and 1842, and for the same the defendant was to execute his bonds with approved personal security. Under this contract the defendant…
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