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5 N.C. 97

Thompson v. . Tate

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

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Decided 1805-12-05

How this case has been cited

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1969

4 state decisions

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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.

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¶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

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