Civil Action, upon a bond, tried before McKay, J., at Fall Term, 1875, of Carteret Superior Court. The husband of the defendant was indebted to the plaintiff in 1862, in the sum of $2,500, for which he gave his note. The defendant joined him in giving a mortgage upon certain property, represented as her separate property, to secure the payment of the note. The mortgaged property really belonged to the mother of the defendant.
Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently June 1963
1 state decisions
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
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Proof of a consideration is not necessary to -entitle a plaintiff to recover upon a bond to pay money. The seal imports a consideration. And, besides, a voluntary bond to pay money is good, even if it be proved that there ■was no consideration. It is only where a plaintiff is obliged to invoke equity to enforce a bond, that it is required of him ¡to show a consideration.
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But, if it were necessary for the plaintiff to show a consid¡eration, he has shown it ample. He held a bond against
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the defendant and her deceased husband for $2,500, with a mortgage -on land, supposed to be hers, and which, in fact, became hers upon the death of her-mother; he surrendered that bond and mortgage to the defendant upon her executing the bond sued on. That was the loss to the plaintiff. The gain to the defendant was that she got clear of the •$2,500 and the mortgage on her land, relieved her husband’s estate, of which she was entitled to a wife’s share, and became the creditor of his estate to the.amount of the new bonds which she gave.
