Heyer v. . Beatty
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil Action to recove? land tried at Fall Term, 1879, of New Hanover Superior Court, before Eure, J. Judgment for plaintiff, appeal by defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtDillard, J.
This action is to recover a house and lot claimed by the plaintiff under a sale and conveyance by the administrators with the will annexed of W. 0. Betten-court, in July, 1863.
The defendant sets up as a defence that he bought and paid for the house and lot in 1845, and that being a slave, the deed was executed by Campbell, his vendor, by one Lord, his attorney in fact, to Bettencourt on a verbal trust for him, who accepted and held the title to his use until his death in 1862, and that by virtue thereof he had an equity to liave the title against the plaintiff, for the reason that defendant’s…
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