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  "name": "THE VESTRY AND LEGAL TRUSTEES OF THE PROPERTY OF ST. PETER'S PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF WASHINGTON, N. C., Comprising T. HARVEY MYERS, Senior Warden, and J. D. GRIMES, Junior Warden, and Ten Others, v. C. C. DUKE",
  "name_abbreviation": "Vestry & Legal Trustees of the Property of St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church v. Duke",
  "decision_date": "1939-09-20",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "793",
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      "cite": "216 N.C. 793"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.C.",
    "id": 9292,
    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
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    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
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    {
      "cite": "144 N. C., 126",
      "category": "reporters:state",
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "THE VESTRY AND LEGAL TRUSTEES OF THE PROPERTY OF ST. PETER'S PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF WASHINGTON, N. C., Comprising T. HARVEY MYERS, Senior Warden, and J. D. GRIMES, Junior Warden, and Ten Others, v. C. C. DUKE."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Per Curiam.\nThe questions involved on this appeal are controlled by the decision of this Court in Church v. Bragaw, 144 N. C., 126. The judgment below is\nAffirmed.",
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        "author": "Per Curiam."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "H. S. Ward for plaintiffs, appellees.",
      "A. E. Daniel for defendant, appellant."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "THE VESTRY AND LEGAL TRUSTEES OF THE PROPERTY OF ST. PETER'S PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF WASHINGTON, N. C., Comprising T. HARVEY MYERS, Senior Warden, and J. D. GRIMES, Junior Warden, and Ten Others, v. C. C. DUKE.\n(Filed 20 September, 1939.)\nAppeal by defendant from Thompson, J., at June Term, 1939, of Beaufort.\nAffirmed.\nControversy without action to determine the validity of the title of a tract of land which the plaintiffs contracted to convey to the defendant and the defendant agreed to purchase. The defendant declined to comply with the contract by reason of alleged defects in the title. The graveyard, about which there are certain stipulations in the will of Thomas A. McNair, Sr., is not located on the property plaintiffs propose to convey. Judgment for the plaintiffs, and the defendant appealed.\nH. S. Ward for plaintiffs, appellees.\nA. E. Daniel for defendant, appellant."
  },
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  "last_page_order": 859
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