Norwood v. Lassiter.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by Arthur Norwood against S. M. Lassiter and others, heard by Judge George H. Brown and a jury, at March Term, 1902, of the Superior Court of Northampton County. From a judgment for the defendants, the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
This action was brought for the purpose of having a deed cancelled, and for the recovery of the possession cf one of the tracts of land known as the “Josey tract,” therein described.
It appears that on the 8th day of September, 1880, W. S. Norwood and wife executed to W. C. Bowen a deed of trust for said land, which was then the property of Mrs. Norwood, to secure a debt of $3,000 owing by her husband to W. H. Farmer. The deed contained a power of sale, which was to be exercised only upon the request of Farmer. In the year 1883 Norwood and his wife died, the latter leaving a will, in which she…
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