Grissom v. . Grissom
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by plaintiff from Bountree, J., at the May Term, 1915, of New HaNoveb. Civil action. During the progress of the trial the court excluded certain evidence offered by the plaintiff, whereupon the plaintiff duly excepted and, in deference to the ruling of the court, submitted to a non-suit and appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtBeowN, J.
This action is brought by the plaintiff, who is the son of Thomas Grissom and his wife, Sarah, both deceased, against the defendants, who are the other heirs at law of said Thomas Grissom and his wife, Sarah, for the purpose of fastening a trust upon certain lands described in the complaint.
The plaintiff alleges that Thomas Grissom, being desirous of purchasing a certain piece of land, during the year 1866 sent his oldest son, Robert S. Grissom, to Wilmington to purchase the said land from one Thomas Douglass, and gave his son the money to pay for the same; that the latter purchased the land…
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