Bazemore v. . Mountain
Supreme Court of North Carolina
(Vn AotioN for necessary family and farming supplies furnished the feme defendant for the support of herself and her family for the year 1894, tried before Hoke, at May Term, 1899, of the Superior Court of Bertie County.
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(Vn AotioN for necessary family and farming supplies furnished the feme defendant for the support of herself and her family for the year 1894, tried before Hoke, at May Term, 1899, of the Superior Court of Bertie County. The ■complaint alleged that she was the-owner of several tracts of land (describing them), and of personal property (describing it), and that the entire support of the family devolves upon her, and that she has no other source of income than arises from her said lands. The plaintiff’s prayer is for judgment for his debt, and that said judgment be specifically and specially…
1Opinion
The only question presented in this appeal is whether the feme defendant's real estate is liable to sale under the plaintiff's judgment. When the case was here before (121 N.C. 59), the opinion of the Court restricted her liability to her personal property, and we will have to do so now. This seems no longer to be an open question, whatever construction section 1826 of The Code (317) may have been liable to, before it was construed. But in Jones v. Craigmiles, 114 N.C. 613 and in Ulman v. Mace,115 N.C. 24, the liability was limited to the personal property of thefeme defendant. And in Bates…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Farthing v. . ShieldsSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1890
- Jones v. CraigmilesSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1894
- Bates v. SultanSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1895
- Bazemore v. . MountainSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1897
- Ulman v. . MacESupreme Court of North Carolina · 1894