Smith v. Garris.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by B. E. Smith against R. H. Garris, heard by Judge Francis D. Winston and a jury, at April Term, 1902, of the Superior Court of Pitt County. Erom a judgment for the plaintiff, the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Eurches, O. J.
The plaintiff was the fee-simple owner of the land in controversy, which he mortgaged to Hardy, and failing to pay the mortgage debt, the land was sold under the powers contained in the mortgage, and the defendant be came tbe purchaser. The plaintiff alleges that the defendant bought the land for him, and was to convey the same to the plaintiff upon the plaintiff’s repaying the defendant the purchase-money, which, he alleges, he has paid, and more than paid, in money and in rents and profits, and in money received by the defendant for lumber, while he has wrongfully been in…
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