Dixon v. . Gravely
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil aotiok on contract begun in a Justice’s Court and tried on appeal therefrom before Mcloer, L., and a jury, at June Term, 1895, of EdgeooMbe Superior Court. There was a verdict for the plaintiff and defendant appealed from the judgment thereon. The facts appear in the opinion of Chief Justice Eaikclotii.
1Opinion of the Court
Faircloth, C. J.:
The rules of law governing special contracts and quantum meruit have been so fully and so often declared by this Court that they are easily understood and their application is not difficult when the facts are clearly presented. In this case, as frequently happens, the confusion grows out of the informality of the pleadings and the difficulty of understanding from the records what really occurrd in the proceedings in the Superior Court. If in such cases we miss the point, it results from our inability to rightly apprehend the procedure below.
We gather the following from the…
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