¶1From Hillsborough. Upon this question there can be no doubt: the vendor is clearly liable, and the rule for a new trial must be discharged.
¶2Cited: McKinnon v. McIntosh, 98 N.C. 92; Wrenn v. Morgan, 148 N.C. 105. *72
5 N.C. 97
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided December 5, 1805
Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1805-12-05
Key passage — most relied on by later courts
“Upon this question there can be no doubt; the vendor is clearly liable.”
quoted by 1 later decision, including Hodges v. . Smith
Relies on Wrenn v. . Morgan · McKinnon v. . McIntosh
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1805-12-05
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1969
4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.