Pasterfield v. Sawyer.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by J. H. Pasterfield and wife against J. H. Sawyer, heard by Judge M. H. Justice and a jury, at May Term, 1903, of the Superior Court of PasquotaNk County. Erom a judgment for the defendant the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
This case was before us at the last term and is reported in 132 N. C., 258. The error pointed out at that time was that the Court below dismissed the plaintiff’s action for want of jurisdiction. The action was begun in the court of a justice of the peace for the recovery of a deed for real estate. It was brought by appeal of the defendant to the Superior Court, and in that Court, upon its appearing by an averment in the answer of the defendant that the title to real estate was in controversy, his Honor dismissed the action without hearing evidence as to whether the title to real estate was…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Pasterfield v. Sawyer.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1903
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