Lester v. . Houston
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This is a civil action, which was tried before Boykin, J.— a jury being waived — at February Term, 1888, of MeckleN-burg County. The action was instituted to recover an alleged balance due upon a contract for the construction of a house at Davidson College, and to enforce a lien upon the premises against the defendant Houston and his co-defendant Brown, to whom the property had been conveyed in trust to secure •creditors.
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This is a civil action, which was tried before Boykin, J.— a jury being waived — at February Term, 1888, of MeckleN-burg County. The action was instituted to recover an alleged balance due upon a contract for the construction of a house at Davidson College, and to enforce a lien upon the premises against the defendant Houston and his co-defendant Brown, to whom the property had been conveyed in trust to secure •creditors. A jury trial was waived and the .Judge found the following facts: 1. That a contract was entered into between plaintiff and •defendant Houston as set out in the complaint,…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
Exception 1. The entire indebtedness incurred by the defendant is found to amount to $2,587.71, and the partial payment to $1,864.88, showing a balance due the plaintiff on December 15th, 1886, of $722.83, for which sum (again reduced by five dollars) the defendant Houston gave a certificate in these terms :
“ This is to certify that I am indebted to C H. Lester in the sum of seven hundred and seventeen dollars and eighty-three cents, balance due for building house at Davidson College. This 15th day of December, 1886.
G. S. HOUSTON.”
On this accounting all the materials were found to have been…
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