Hackett v. . McMillan

The sole question presented in the appeal is this: Does the complaint state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action?

In White v. Jones, 88 N.C. 166, in which case the plaintiffs here were defendants, Ruffin, J., states one of the questions presented by that appeal as follows: "Whether the sums due from the defendant Bledsoe for rents during his occupation of the land are to be appropriated to the satisfaction of the amount ascertained to be due him, or to the debt still due the estate of Mrs. Stokes for the balance of the purchase-money thereof." And, discussing that, in a subsequent…