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92 N.C. 672

Lawrence v. . Hodges

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided February 5, 1885

Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1885-02-05

Civil ACTION, heard before Graves, Judge, at Pall Term, 1884, of Beaufort Superior Court. This is an action of claim and delivery, brought on the 31st day of January, 1884, in the Superior Court of the county of Beaufort, to recover the possession of the steamer “ Edgecombe.” This steamer is a screw propeller of 52 ^¡r tons burthen, and enrolled under the laws of the United States in the Pamlico District in North Carolina in the custom house at New Berne.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently October 1934

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Decided 1885-02-05

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¶1This is the appeal of the defendant, Receiver in the above action.

¶2The receiver appealed upon the ground that the Court directed that the judgment for the restoration of the vessel and the penalty, should be discharged when and if the plaintiff should pay *683 the amount, including interests and costs, of the judgments referred to in the judgment from which the appeal was taken.

¶3This is an action at law, and no equitable relief is demanded, nor do the pleadings present a case in which it might be granted. It may turn out that the vessel is worth more money than the mortgagee's debts, but the receiver, if he is entitled to any surplus, can protect himself in another action.

¶4The decision of this court in the plaintiff's appeal in this case is conclusive against the appellant. His appeal was unnecessary and improvidently taken, and must be dismissed.

¶5It is so ordered.

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