Graves v. . Trueblood
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ACTION, tried before Gudger, Judge, at Spring Term, 1886, of PasqjjotaNK Superior Court. On December 26th, 1859, Meta Palmer, for the recited consideration of one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars, conveyed by deed two lots of land in the town of Elizabeth City, which are described by boundaries therein, and also in the complaint, to John S. Burgess, in fee, to be held upon the following trusts: I. “ For the sole and separate benefit of Barsheba True-blood, now…
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Civil ACTION, tried before Gudger, Judge, at Spring Term, 1886, of PasqjjotaNK Superior Court. On December 26th, 1859, Meta Palmer, for the recited consideration of one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars, conveyed by deed two lots of land in the town of Elizabeth City, which are described by boundaries therein, and also in the complaint, to John S. Burgess, in fee, to be held upon the following trusts: I. “ For the sole and separate benefit of Barsheba True-blood, now the wife of Cornelius Trueblood, for and during-the time or continuance of the coverture, or the joint lives of said…
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, C. J.,
(after stating the facts):
I. The plaintiffs, after objection, were allowed to prove declarations of said Barsheba in reference to her having money and other property of the feme plaintiff in her hands.
No prejudicial result came to the defendant from the admission of the evidence, since with it, the verdict upon the-issue to which it was applicable, is against the plaintiff.
II. The Court refused to let the jury hear the testimony of the defendant Cornelius as to what passed between him and his wife about the payment of the purchase money,, and whence it was derived — their object…
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