Geer v. . Geer’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “It has been fully settled that a plaintiff may recover in ejectment upon an equitable title ( Taylor v. Eatman , 92 N.C. 601 ; Murray v. Blackledge , 71 N.C. 492 ; Condry v. Cheshire , 88 N.C. 375 ); and where, upon the face of record evidence, like that before us, the court would in a direct proceeding, as a matter of course, order the correction of a merely formal defect in the execution of its decree, it is unnecessary (though perhaps the better practice) to set forth the facts in the pleading. The same is true where it appears from the documentary evidence that the dry legal title only is outstanding in another; but where it is necessary to establish such equitable ownership by extrinsic testimony, then the facts should be pleaded.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Vaught v. . Williams