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62 N.C. 161

Womack v. Eacker

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided January 15, 1867

Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1867-01-15

Bill, to correct the terms of a note for the payment of money, &e.', filed to Fall Term, 1866, of the Court of Equity for Gaston. At that term the defendant filed his answer, and by consent proofs were taken, and the cause set for hearing, and transferred to this court. On the 6th December, 1864, the defendant, after advertisement, exposed the personal estate of his intestate to public sale, on a credit of twelve months.

Decided 1867-01-15

Pearson, C. J.

¶1The complainants executed the note under *163a mistake in regard to a matter of law, into which they were led by confiding in the opinion of Samuel Black, Esq., who was acting as clerk and agent of the defendant.

¶2We had at first some difficulty, because the complainants had notice of the words used in the note, and the mistake was in regard to the legal effect of the words used. But McKay v. Simpson, 6 Ire. Eq., 452, settles the question. It is t.h'ere held: “Where an instrument is intended to carry an agreement into execution, but, by reason of a mistake, ■either of fact or of lato, does not fulfil that intention, equity ■corrects the mistake.

Per Curiam.

¶3Decree for complainants.

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