McRae v. . Lawrence
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil Action, tried before Moore, J., at Spring Term, 1876, of Pitt Superior -Court. The action was brought to recover upon certain promissory notes. The record sets out the evidence in the cause, but it is not necessary to an understanding of the case, as decided, that the same should be stated.
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Civil Action, tried before Moore, J., at Spring Term, 1876, of Pitt Superior -Court. The action was brought to recover upon certain promissory notes. The record sets out the evidence in the cause, but it is not necessary to an understanding of the case, as decided, that the same should be stated. The following issue was submitted to the jury.: •“ Have the notes sued on been paid ?” Counsel for the defendant insisted that, as the defendant had to maintain the affirmative of this issue, he was entitled to open and close the argument. The Court ruled otherwise, and the defendant excepted. His…
1Opinion of the CourtReade, J.
1. In a popular government, where the-people-found their own institutions, elect their own officers, make their own laws, and assist in their execution, probably the quality in an officer next highest to those of capacity and integrity, is good manners, so to behave as to make himself respected and the government popular. The bearing of a Judge on the bench over the crowd, towards witnesses and-parties and officers, ought to be such as to impress all with the feeling that the court-house has a high and refining atmosphere, that it is not a slaughter house of rights or reputations, but a place…
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