Court Opinion

ID: 9812577
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 22:42:19.195944+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:25:24.071534
License: Public Domain

Sea well, J.,
concurring in result: I concur in the conclusion that defendants’ demurrer should have been overruled, but do not agree with the rationale of the opinion reaching that result. In the court below the deed or document upon which the plaintiff sued was made a part of the complaint; and properly speaking, the judgment was rendered upon the pleadings, the court holding erroneously, I think, that the contract on which the plaintiff sued was a contract for the sale of an interest in land, unsigned by the party to be charged, and, therefore, in contravention of G. S., 22-2, the statute of frauds. The case was tried upon that theory in the court below and so argued here, and I am of the opinion that the contending parties correctly divined the determinative issue in the case, pitched their battle upon the only line which the circumstances justified, and are entitled to a deliverance from this Court which might aid both them and the trial court in determining the controversy. . ■
*144I do not think it amiss to say that my view of the document in controversy differs widely from that expressed in the main opinion, and the difference is such that compels me, regretfully enough, to express my disagreement. Further discussion may or may not be afforded at a later time, according to the course of events.