Lain v. . Gaither
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a civil action, for the recovery of specific articles of personal property, tried before his Honor, Judge Wilson, at the Fall Term, 1874, of the Superior Court of Davie cconty. On the trial in the Court below, the plaintiff, as a witness, stated that the defendants had borrowed of him a still and a number of still tubs, and upon his demanding their return, they had refused to give them up.
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This was a civil action, for the recovery of specific articles of personal property, tried before his Honor, Judge Wilson, at the Fall Term, 1874, of the Superior Court of Davie cconty. On the trial in the Court below, the plaintiff, as a witness, stated that the defendants had borrowed of him a still and a number of still tubs, and upon his demanding their return, they had refused to give them up. On his cross-examination , the counsel for defendants proposed to show, that the title to the still, &c., ivas in the assignee in bankruptcy of the plaintiff, and that he, the plaintiff, had been…
1Opinion of the CourtBynum, J.
The general proposition is true, that lie who acquires possession under another, shall not deny the title of him under whom he holds, so as to prevent him from re-assuming the possession. This, however, is not upon the strict principles of an estoppel, but upon one of morality and good faith analogous to it, which will be adhered to by the Courts, unless it will work injustice, and especially to the rights of third persons, the duty of protecting which has not been officially assumed by the defendant, but has been confided to him by the law. Yarborough v. Harris, 3 Dev., 40; Bennett v.…
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