CONNER v. RIDLEY

No. 20.

104 S.E.2d 845 (1958)

248 N.C. 714

Melrose CONNER v. Mary Conner RIDLEY, Executrix of the Estate of Mrs. Lillie Conner.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

September 17, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don C. Young, Asheville, for plaintiff, appellant.

Hamrick & Jones, Rutherfordton, for defendant, appellee.


BOBBITT, Justice.

We pass, without discussion or decision, appellee's contention that the excluded evidence was insufficient to support a finding that Mrs. Lillie Conner made an oral agreement with plaintiff as alleged; for, in our view, the testimony tending to show such oral agreement, being in direct conflict with plaintiff's deed, is incompetent.

A well established rule is stated by Hoke, J. (later C. J.), in this oft-quoted excerpt from his opinion in...

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