A. T. Bruce & Co. v. Strickland
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil Action tried at Spring; Terna, 1879, of Nash Superior Court, before Seymour, J. In order to secure the paymejxt of a debt to one John A. .Harrison, the defendant executed a deed without the joinder of his wife, conveying a tract of land to him, dated the 20th of January, 1874, which debt was by agreement to be paid in two years from the date of the. deed.
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Civil Action tried at Spring; Terna, 1879, of Nash Superior Court, before Seymour, J. In order to secure the paymejxt of a debt to one John A. .Harrison, the defendant executed a deed without the joinder of his wife, conveying a tract of land to him, dated the 20th of January, 1874, which debt was by agreement to be paid in two years from the date of the. deed. The land was acquired by the defendant prior.bo March, 1867, and the debt was contracted subsequent to 1868. The defendant was married in 1847, and bis wife is still living. They now live upon the land, and have infant children. No…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The defendant was married in the year 1847, and acquired title to the tract of land described in the pleadings prior to March, in the year 1867. He contracted a debt to one John A. Harrison of $500 subsequent to the year 1868, and to secure the same, on the 20th day of January, 1874, conveyed the land to said Harrison, by deed absolute in form and with a contemporary parol agreement between them, that the debt should be paid in two years in redemption of the land. The wife was not a party to the deed, and the defendant owns no other land. No homestead has been laid off to the defendant, and…
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