Witherspoon v. . Isbell

Superior Court of North Carolina

Witherspoon v. . Isbell

2 N.C. 12

Superior Court of North Carolina·Decided March 5, 1792·Published

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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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.

Witherspoon v. . Isbell, 2 N.C. 12 (N.C. Ct. App. 1792).

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