Keith v. Bailey

All contracts to sell or convey lands, or any interest in or concerning them, shall be void unless said contract, or some memorandum or note thereof, be put in writing and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or by some other person by him thereto lawfully authorized. C. S., 988.

The defendant, who is the party to be charged (Hall v. Misenheimer, 137 N. C., 184), contends that he signed no memorandum or note in contemplation of the statute; that the contract to which the-plaintiff testified at the trial was not reduced to writing; that he was under no legal obligation to purchase the…