MOREHEAD v. HARRIS

No. 605.

137 S.E.2d 174 (1964)

262 N.C. 330

Sylvia Harris MOREHEAD, John Wesley Harris, Wayman Harris, and Wiley Harris, Jr., Plaintiffs, v. Daisy HARRIS, Mary Louise Price, now Mary Louise Price Boquist and her husband, Richard E. Boquist, Helen Moore Price, now Helen Moore Price Hooper, and her husband, Phillip M. Hooper, Defendants, and Cora Jane Lea, Executrix of Daisy Harris Estate, Cora Jane Lea (Cora E. Lea), Lettie Ora Walker (Ora Lea Walker), Widow, Florence Lea Fuller and her husband, Samuel Fuller, Effie Lea Snipes and her husband, Amos Snipes, Bessie Lea Hayes and her husband, James Hayes, Georgia Lea Lynn, Banks Lea and his wife, Atlanta G. Lea, Mabry Lea and his wife, Eunice H. Lea, Maebelle Vincent Wagstaff and her husband, Hubert Wagstaff, Edna Harris Garrett and her husband, Murphy Garrett, and the following nieces and nephews of the defendant, Daisy Harris, deceased, Wilma Walker, Nellie Walker, Elizabeth Walker, Eugene Walker, Hillary Walker, Grady Brooks Walker, Vivian Corbett, Walter Elmer Corbett, Priscilla Corbett, Luther Corbett, Willie Lea Vincent, Ada Vincent, Jeneva Vincent, Louise Vincent, Nessie Vincent, Donald Vincent, Demaster Vincent, Beatty or Baddie Vincent, and all other heirs at law of Daisy Harris, deceased, and all spouses, guardians, adopted parents, executors, administrators and representatives and all other persons who are or may be interested as heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, lienors, grantors, trustees, firms, corporations, who may be interested in the subject of this action, all of whose names and places of residence are unknown to the plaintiffs, Additional Defendants.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

July 10, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shuping & Shuping, Greensboro, for plaintiffs.

Paschal & McNeely, Greensboro, for defendants Edna Harris Garrett and Murphy Garrett.

Hoyle, Boone, Dees & Johnson, Greensboro, for defendants Boquist and Hooper.

Herbin, Conoly & Forsyth, Greensboro, for additional defendants.


MOORE, Justice.

Defendants' assignments of error bring into focus four crucial rulings of the court below.

(1). The trial judge instructed the jury that Daisy Harris could not acquire the real estate of her late husband, Wiley Harris, at the foreclosure sale by Thomas C. Hoyle trustee, to the exclusion of plaintiffs, the heirs at law of Wiley Harris, and "any title that she acquired by * * * purchase at said sale...

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