Pickett v. Garrard.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by L. G. Pickett and Mary Pickett, bis wife, against W. W. Garrard, beard by Judge Walter E. Neal and a jury, at March Term, 1902, of the Superior Court of Dueham: County. From a judgment for tbe plaintiffs, the defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Furches, O. J.
The feme plaintiff, Mary Pickett-, is the legitimate daughter of Waine Garrard, and the defendant W. W. Garrard is the illegitimate son of Waine Garrard. This is alleged by the defendant and admitted by the plaintiffs'; and Martha Garrard was the wife of Waine Garrard and mother of Mary Pickett, but not the mother of the defendant.
On the 15th of April, 1887, Duane (D. W.) Garrard made and executed the following deed, to-wit: * * * “Witnesseth, that said Duane Garrard, in consideration of one dollar and fifty cents to- him paid by Martha J. Garrard and W. W. Garrard, the receipt…
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