Jones v. . Bobbitt
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil AcxioN for specific performance of a contract tried at Fall Term, 1883, of GrANVIlle Superior Court, before Mao-JRae, J. The defendants appealed from the ruling and judgment of the court below.
1Opinion of the CourtMerriMON, J.
The action is brought to compel the specific performance of a contract in writing under seal, whereby the ancestor of the defendants agreed and obliged himself to convey to the plaintiff certain lands therein mentioned, upon the payment of the purchase money therefor by the plaintiff.
The plaintiff alleges that the purchase money has been paid, and this the defendants deny, averring that the plaintiff, at the time of the execution of the bond for title, executed three promissory notes for the purchase money; that he paid part thereof, and upon a settlement and ascertaining the balance unpaid,…
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