Legal Opinion

Wilson v. . Patton

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided October 5, 1882PublishedCited by 27 opinions

Application of W. R. Young, Sheriff of Buncombe county, for instructions as to how he should apply certain moneys in his hands raised by sale of the lands of the defendant, Mont Patton, heard at Fall Term, 1882, of Buncombe Superior Court, before Shepherd, J. The facts agreed to by and between the parties interested are as follows-: The sheriff at the time of the sale of the defendant’s land on the . day of August, 1882, had in his hands the following executions : 1. In…

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Application of W. R. Young, Sheriff of Buncombe county, for instructions as to how he should apply certain moneys in his hands raised by sale of the lands of the defendant, Mont Patton, heard at Fall Term, 1882, of Buncombe Superior Court, before Shepherd, J. The facts agreed to by and between the parties interested are as follows-: The sheriff at the time of the sale of the defendant’s land on the . day of August, 1882, had in his hands the following executions : 1. In favor of P. F. Patton, administrator of Anna' E Patton v. Mont Patton, issued upon a judgment rendered and docketed in the…

1Opinion of the CourtAshe, J.

The transcript of the judgment from Iredell county in favor of the Bank of Statesville, though informal, is, we think, not so much so as to vitiate it. It contains all the essential requisites of a judgment, the day of its rendition, the names of the parties, plaintiff and defendant, the amount of the debt, and the costs of the action. No one who reads it can doubt but that a judgment was rendered in the superior court of Iredell county in favor of the Bank of Statesville against Mont. Patton and W. W. McDowell, for the sum mentioned in the transcript.

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2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Hyman v. . Devereux and OthersSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1869
  2. Cable v. . HardinSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1872

3Cited by27 opinions

  1. Nolan v. NolanCalifornia Supreme Court · 1909
  2. Long v. . WalkerSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1890
  3. Vanstory v. ThorntonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1893
  4. Arnold v. . EstisSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1885
  5. Kerens National Bank v. StocktonTexas Supreme Court · 1931

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