Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1872

Laxton v. Tilly

Laxton v. Tilly
Supreme Court of North Carolina · Decided January 15, 1872 · Reade
66 N.C. 327

Counsel

Ovide Dupre, for plaintiff., Folic, for defendant.

Laxton v. Tilly

Opinion of the Court

Reade, J,

The maintenance of the plaintiff is not a charge upon the personalty of the estate of Levi. Laxton, dec’d, in the hands of the defendant his administrator, but it is a charge upon the land which Thomas Laxton sold to Levi Laxton, with the stipulation that Levi should support the plaintiff.

The judgment below will be modified in conformity with “this opinion, and the cause will be remanded, and this will be -certified.

J?ee OuRiam. Judgment modified.

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