TANGLEWOOD LAND CO., INC. v. BYRD

No. 89.

261 S.E.2d 655 (1980)

299 N.C. 260

TANGLEWOOD LAND COMPANY, INC. v. C. L. BYRD and wife, Kathleen N. Byrd.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

February 1, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mast, Tew, Nall & Moore by Allen R. Tew, Clayton, for plaintiff-appellee.

Gulley, Barrow & Boxley by Jack P. Gulley, Raleigh, for defendants-appellants.


BROCK, Justice.

We note first that this contract was executed in Virginia, and that the interpretation of a contract is governed by the law of the place where the contract was made. Bundy v. Commercial Credit Corporation, 200 N.C. 511, 516, 157 S.E. 860, 863 (1931); Fast v. Gulley, 271 N.C. 208, 155 S.E.2d 507 (1967). Secondly, the contract on its face provides that in construing the...

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