State v. . Young
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Indictment — Cheating by False Cretenses — Caveat Emptor. INDICTMENT for cheating by False Tokeu.3 and Pretences,, (Bat. Rev. ch. 32 § 6 7.) tried at Fall Term, 1876, of Meck-LENJBURG- Superior Court, before Schench, J. The facts are that one Susan Galloway the prosecutrix: leased a tract of land to defendant for one year. Defendant-agreed to pay as rent four bales of “good middling” cotton.
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Indictment — Cheating by False Cretenses — Caveat Emptor. INDICTMENT for cheating by False Tokeu.3 and Pretences,, (Bat. Rev. ch. 32 § 6 7.) tried at Fall Term, 1876, of Meck-LENJBURG- Superior Court, before Schench, J. The facts are that one Susan Galloway the prosecutrix: leased a tract of land to defendant for one year. Defendant-agreed to pay as rent four bales of “good middling” cotton. On the first of January, 1876, he sent two bales to prosecu-trix and about a month thereafter in a settlement betweem the parties the prosecutrix took the defendant’s note for $100 iu lieu of the other…
1Opinion of the CourtEAiRCMmi, J.
In the cotton markets the terms “Middling,. Goo:l Middling. Ordinary, Good ordinary” and some others-are well understood by buyers and sellers in the cotton regions. They signify distinct grades of cotton and sell at' prices differing very materially. It is a common business to buy and sell cotton without inspection on tlu In si? of these terms and when delivered, if the gral t i; liifur or lower the price is varied accordingly. Reference to these-terms hfere is not important except to show that the draftsman did not advert particularly to the use of these terms,, as the bill of indictment…
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