Buford v. . Mochy

DEVIN and SEAWELL, JJ., concur in dissent. Civil action in ejectment.

The plaintiffs, who had been married to each other, were divorced in 1936. Thereafter the feme plaintiff held herself out and did business as a single woman. On or about 1 September, 1940, she authorized her attorney, Thomas J. Moore, to sell her house and lot in the town of Wilson. Pursuant to this authorization, Moore forthwith negotiated a contract with the defendants for the purchase of the property. They were told that the feme plaintiff was unmarried, and at the time the deed was drafted, which was prior to its…