Davis v. . Council
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ACTION, for the recovery of land, tried before Shepherd, Judge, and a jury, at Fall Term, 1884, of the Superior Court of Columbus county. The land in controversy belonged to the defendant C. T. Davis, under whom the contestants in the action claim.
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Civil ACTION, for the recovery of land, tried before Shepherd, Judge, and a jury, at Fall Term, 1884, of the Superior Court of Columbus county. The land in controversy belonged to the defendant C. T. Davis, under whom the contestants in the action claim. The plaintiff claims his title from sales made by the assignee in bankruptcy of said C. T. Davis, and the assignee’s deed therefor, made in February, 1882, and also by the assignee in bankruptcy of the defendant J. T. Council, to whom the said Davis had previously undertaken to convey, and the assignee’s deed therefor, also executed in…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
(after stating the facts). 1. The first exception presented in the record is to the ruling by which the witness Melvin, in order to corroborate the witness Davis, was permitted to testify to a conversation which passed between himself and Davis, and which had been given in evidence by the latter, as also to a conversation, consequent upon it, with the defendant, J. T. Council, showing the fraudulent arrangement planned and carried out to defeat the creditors of Davis.
The declarations proceed from parties to the action — those through whose agency the feme defendant acquires the title set up…
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