Court Opinion

ID: 3670512
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 06:19:07.913059+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:45:21.730615
License: Public Domain

A demand is necessary to entitle to the action, and it must be made by the plaintiff, or by some one by his authority. Here he did not inform the defendant of his authority at the time of making the demand, or say that he demanded in the name of the plaintiff; Therefore it was not a good demand, and the plaintiff was nonsuited.
NOTE. — In the arguing of this case JUDGE WILLIAMS said the act of limitations would run in detinue, without a demand, if the plaintiff knew where the negroes were, and that they were claimed by defendant as his own, and did not bring suit within the time prescribed in the act; but this he said arguendo only. See the case of Berry v. Pullam, ante, 16.
NOTE. — The opinion of the judge on the first point of this case is doubted of by Haywood in his note to Lewis v. Williams, post, 150, and overruled in an anonymous case, 3 N.C. 136, and Shepard v. Edwards,ibid., 186.