Witherspoon v. . Isbell
This text of 2 N.C. 12 (Witherspoon v. . Isbell) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Superior Court of North Carolina primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
There is a difference between laying a fact after the time it really happened and before the time it really happened. In the first case the declaration is supportable; in the second it is not. So the plaintiff was nonsuited. Quere de hoc, et vide Salk., 662; Cro. J., 428; Bull., 33; L. Ev., 241; Co. Litt., 283; Cro. Car., 514, 228; I Sid., 308; Trials perpais, 394; Cro. J., 94; Touch. Pre., 264, 549; 5 Mo. C., 287; 1 Bac. Ab., 102; 2 H. H. P. C., 291.
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