Bonds v. . Smith
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a civil action, for the possession of land, fried at the December Term, 1889, of the Superior Court of CUMBERLAND County, before MacRae, J. The action was begun by issuing a summons against Raiford Smith and Jack Inman, April 10, 1886. Inman who held as a tenant under Smith was not served.
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This was a civil action, for the possession of land, fried at the December Term, 1889, of the Superior Court of CUMBERLAND County, before MacRae, J. The action was begun by issuing a summons against Raiford Smith and Jack Inman, April 10, 1886. Inman who held as a tenant under Smith was not served. The plaintiff alleges that Jane D. Byrnes and others conveyed to him on the 19th of March, 1872, one hundred acres of land, described in the complaint, and that the defendants, Inman as tenant and Smith as landlord, wrongfully withhold the possession of the lower portion of said tract of land,…
1Opinion of the CourtAvery., J.
after stating the facts: The plaintiff alleges in his complaint that his father, Granville Bonds, was left in charge as his tenant of the whole one hundred acre tract, when the former left the State in the latter part of the year 1875, it being verbally agreed between them that his father should take all of the rents of said land in consideration of paying the taxes during the son’s absence. He further declares that subsequently, during the year ¡1876, his father, by collusion with the defendant Smith, permitted the land to be sold for the taxes of that year, and though the full amount of…
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