Bear v. Commissioners of Brunswick County

This case is before us on a petition to rehear, the first opinion having been filed at the Spring Term, 1898, 122 N.C. 434. After further argument and a closer investigation, we have arrived at the conclusion that there was error in the former opinion in its reversal of the judgment of the Superior Court. That judgment ought to have been affirmed.

The plaintiff in his complaint alleged that the defendants were indebted to him in the sum of _____ dollars due by eight judgments originally had in a court of a justice of the peace, and afterwards docketed by transcript in the office of the clerk…