Skinner v. . Warren
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Rule on a sheriff heard at Spring Term, 1879, of Pitt Superior Court, before Seymour, J. The plaintiff obtained a rule on the defendant sheriff to show cause why he would not execute a deed to plaintiff for ■certain lands bought at execution -sale. The facts set out in the answer to the rule are substantially embodied in the •opinion,. Upon the hearing in the court below the defendant was ordered to execute the deed. From which judgment the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtDillard, J.
The defendant in answer t-o a rule served on him by plaintiff, a purchaser of land at execution sale, to show cause why he should not be ordered to execute a deed, for cause showed in substance:
1. That he had in his hands at the same time three executions against W. G. Little, one for Vaughn, Barnes & Co. for $86.82, one for Lewis Webb for a sum not mentioned, and one for Weisenfeld, Stern & Co. for $1,109.0(>, all returnable to spring term, 1879, of the court to be liolden on the 3rd Monday in March ; and under all three he had advertised a sale of the lands of the debtor, except so much as…
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