Davis v. . Ely
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ACTION, tried before Graves, J., and a jury, at Fail Term, 1887, of Camden Superior Court. Plaintiff, upon an intimation of opinion by the Court, submitted to a nonsuit, and appealed. • The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
This action is instituted to reform and enforce the specific performance of a contract, the terms of which are alleged to have been arranged and agreed on between the defendants, and the father of the plaintiff acting on his behalf verbally, and which contract, by means of the false and fraudulent representations made by the defendant Terry, acting for his associates, as to the provisions of the oral agreement, was put in its present form, as shown in the accompanying exhibit. The variation, it is asserted, consists in substituting for the Hall tract of land, containing 3,000 acres, which the…
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