Hargrove v. . Adcock
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a civil ACTION, tried before Whitaker, J., at April: Term, 1892, of Granville Superior Court.' Plaintiff sued on the written contract set out in the opinion. Defendant alleges that said contract was not binding on him, as it had not been registered. R. W. Lassiter, one of the plaintiffs, then testified that he sold the land to defendant; that be had a bond to make title to one-half undivided interest from R. W. Winston and wife.
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This was a civil ACTION, tried before Whitaker, J., at April: Term, 1892, of Granville Superior Court.' Plaintiff sued on the written contract set out in the opinion. Defendant alleges that said contract was not binding on him, as it had not been registered. R. W. Lassiter, one of the plaintiffs, then testified that he sold the land to defendant; that be had a bond to make title to one-half undivided interest from R. W. Winston and wife. A paper-writing was then shown witness, purporting tobe the contract with defendant, and plaintiff proposed to prove its execution by witness. Defendant…
1Opinion of the Court
Avery, J.:
The plaintiffs set forth as the basis of their action the following contract, viz.: “ Lthis day agree to buy the Houghtaling place from R. W. Lassiter, agent of Mrs. Mary L. Hargrove, for twenty-three hundred and fifty dollars (contract agreed upon), and I am to have possession the 1st day of January, 1892, and I obligate myself to carry out the contract on my part, and R. W. Lassiter also does upon the part of Hargrove, this 14th of November, 1891.” (Signed by J. W. Adcock and R. W. Lassiter.)
The plaintiffs allege that defendant executed it, and in his answer the latter says “that…
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