Bachelor v. . Norris
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by plaintiff from Ferguson, J., at December Special Term, 1913, of CamdeN. This is an action to recover damages for trespass on land and the title to the land is in isdue.
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Appeal by plaintiff from Ferguson, J., at December Special Term, 1913, of CamdeN. This is an action to recover damages for trespass on land and the title to the land is in isdue. The defendant claims under a deed executed by the feme plaintiff, Georgiana Bachelor, on 30 October, 1902, in which the land is described as follows: “A certain tract or parcel of land in Camden County, State of North Carolina, adjoining the lands of B. B. James and others, bounded as follows, viz.: Beginning at an oak stump at the road gate; thence westwardly, binding the lands of B. B. James to a holly tree; thence…
1Opinion of the CourtAlleN, J.
The constitutionality of the statute (Rev., sec. 2111) authorizing a married woman to execute a valid conveyance of real property without the joinder of her husband, when she has been abandoned by her husband, has been sustained in several decisions of this Court. (Hall v. Walker, 118 N. C., 377; Brown v. Brown, 121 N. C., 8; Finger v. Hunter, 130 N. C., 531), and as the fact of abandonment has been found by the jury in favor of the defendant, the only question left open to the plaintiff on this branch of the case is whether there is evidence to support the verdict.
There was evidence that the…
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