Bain v. . Bain
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a civil action, tried before Connor, J., at November Term, 1887, of Cumberland Superior Court, On the trial certain testimony offered by the plaintiff was excluded, whereupon plaintiff submitted to a nonsuit. Afterwards the Court directed the judgment of nonsuit to be stricken out and the case to be reinstated for trial, and the defendant appealed. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Davis, J.:
The allegations of the complaint, so far as material to the question now before us, are, substantially, that on the 8th day of April, 1844, the defendant executed to John Bain, Sr., the intestate of the plaintiff, a bond for the sum of $500, with certain conditions attached, which is made part of the complaint. That, on the same day that the bond was executed, the said John Bain executed to the defendant a deed in fee-simple, conveying to him the land set out in the complaint. That said deed, though absolute on its face, was made with the “express understanding and agreement” that…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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