Doe on Dem. McLeod v. McCall
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Ejectment, tried before Ellis, Judge, at the last Fall Term of Eichmond Superior Court. The lessor of the plaintiff in this case, showed that he had leased the land in question to the defendant for a year, and at the end of the term demanded possession, which he refused to surrender.
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Ejectment, tried before Ellis, Judge, at the last Fall Term of Eichmond Superior Court. The lessor of the plaintiff in this case, showed that he had leased the land in question to the defendant for a year, and at the end of the term demanded possession, which he refused to surrender. The defendant gave in evidence a sheriff’s deed, made to him during the term for which he had leased the land, upon a sale under an execution against the lessor of the plaintiff; which sale was also made during the term aforesaid. It appeared that the defendant had furnished the sheriff, making the sale, with…
1Opinion of the CourtNash, C. J.
The 4th exception disposes of this case for the present; the others have not been taken into consideration by us. The defendant had leased the premises in question, from the lessor of the plaintiff, for one year. At the end of his term he refused to deliver up the possession, upon the ground, that in the meantime, since the lease commenced, an execution against the lessor had been levied on the land, and that he had purchased it at the sale, and produced a sheriff’s deed for it. Upon the subject of the sale, the facts were : the defendant, before the day of sale, placed in the hands of the…
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