Peacock v. Barnes.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by J. W.” Peacock against Ida Barnes and others, heard b j Judge W. B. Councill upon the pleadings at the February Term, 1905, of the Superior Court of Wilson County. From a judgment overruling the demurrer, the defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Claiik, O. J.
Certain lands of Harris Winstead, deceased, were sold to make assets to pay debts by a commissioner appointed by the court in that proceeding. The -net proceeds were applied to the discharge of sundry mortgages upon the land and the surplus was divided between his heirs at law — two daughters — and was invested in real estate. Other real estate of said Winstead was duly partitioned between his said daughters and devisees. At the sale of the land by the commissioner aforesaid to make assets, lot No. 5 was purchased by the plaintiff at the price of $11.10 per acre, the commissioner…
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