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  "name": "BIBB T. PRIDDY v. KERNERSVILLE LUMBER COMPANY, INC.",
  "name_abbreviation": "Priddy v. Kernersville Lumber Co.",
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      "BIBB T. PRIDDY v. KERNERSVILLE LUMBER COMPANY, INC."
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        "text": "Pee Cueiam.\nW. A. Davis and' wife began in 1959 (the construction of a \u00a1house on a lot owned by them. Defendant furnished some or all of -the building materials. Plaintiff made loans to Davis and wife of $8500 on 19 October I960, and $1500 on 15 June 1961, secured by deeds of truist on the bouse and lot, recorded on the dates of their execution. On 25 September 1961 'defendant filed a materialman\u2019s lien against this property in the amount of $4995.88, setting out that the materials \u00a1were furnished under an indivisible 'contract, that the first materials were furnished 14 May 1959, and the last 24 April 1961. The last three items were of .insignificant value, furnished at intervals of almost six months apart \u2014 the final item -was furnished almost six months before the lien was filed. On 21 February 1962 defendant instituted an action against Davis and wife to enforce the lien. Plaintiff was not made a party. Judgment by default was entered 28 March 1962. Execution issued 'and the sheriff offered the property for sale at public 'auction on 25' May 1962'. Plaintiff was the highest bidder at the price of $6100.\nOn 29 May 1962 plaintiff instituted the present .action to1 establish the priority of his deeds .of trust over defendant\u2019s lien, alleging 'that, to defraud plaintiff, defendant had included in its claim of lien the last three .items listed .therein Which were furnished subsequent to the eompletrom of its contract for the mere purpose of extending the .time far filing lien. Plaintiff prayed for an .order restraining the completion of the execution sale. A temporary restraining order was issued to- that end. Defendant entered a general denial, and pleaded that (by bidding at the sale plaintiff was estopped to attack the sale and the judgment pursuant to which the sale was made.\nThe parties waived jury trial. The superior court found that defendant\u2019s lien was entitled to priority and dissolved the 'restraining order. Plaintiff appealed.\nWe heard the appeal at the Fall Team 1962. Priddy v. Lumber Co., 258 N.C. 653, 129 S.E. 2d 256. Reference is made to the opinion, delivered by Justice Sharp and filed 1 February 1963, for a more detailed recital of the pleadings, .evidence, judgment of superior' court .and opinion of this Gourt. We held, upon the evidence adduced at the trial in superior .court, that the purpose of the disputed items in defendant\u2019s claim of lien (the last 'three .items) was to extend the time for filing lien and not in good faith for completion of the contract, that defendant\u2019s 'attempts to extend the time for filing lien constituted constructive fraud, and that defendant\u2019s plea of estoppel does .ruorfc apply \u00a1since defendant has not changed its position in reliance on plaintiff\u2019s ibid. We decreed a new trial and suggested that plaintiff \u201cwould be well advised to move \u00a1below to be allowed to withdraw 'hi\u00ae bid\u201d (citing Glass Co. v. Forbes, 258 N.C. 426, 128 S.E. 2d 875).\nThereafter defendant filed motion and alleged that plaintiff had taken possession of the property, wag collecting rents- for which he had not accounted, and that -this .amounted to a ratification of the sale and his bid and worked an estoppel to attack the judgment under which the sale was made -and rendered the question of priority of liens moot. Defendant prayed that the restraining order be dissolved, the sale foe affirmed, 'and plaintiff\u2019s action be dismissed.\nFollowing \u00a1this, plaintiff moved for leave to withdraw his bid.\nThe court granted plaintiff's motion, denied defendant\u2019s motion, appointed a receiver for the property, and ordered plaintiff to account to the receiver for rents collected (less proper disbursements for expenses) . Defendant appeals.\nThe new trial ordered \u00a1by this court has not been held. There has been no material change in circumstances \u00a1since the former appeal, so far as the record on the present appeal 'discloses. Apart from foils bid at \u00a1the sale, plaintiff as mortgagee had the right to possession of the mortgaged property 'subject to his duty to account for rents. In granting plaintiff\u2019s motion for leave to withdraw his bid, \u00a1the court below was exercising a discretion that we bad indicated was proper under the circumstances. Defendant\u2019s appeal is, in effect, a mere petition to rehear the former appeal. Defendant seeks only to establish its plea of estop-pel \u2014 a matter we ruled on ini our former opinion; our .ruling must stand unless defendant is 'able to establish it upon the retrial by evidence Which ha\u00a9 not so far come to our attention.\nAppeal dismissed.",
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        "author": "Pee Cueiam."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Fred M. Parrish, Jr. and Weston P. Hatfield for 'plaintiff.",
      "Frank C. Ausband and Clyde C. Randolph, Jr., for defendant."
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    "head_matter": "BIBB T. PRIDDY v. KERNERSVILLE LUMBER COMPANY, INC.\n(Filed 30 October 1963.)\n1. Estoppel \u00a7 4\u2014\nThe fact that the mortgagee, after filing the last and highest bid at the sale of the property in the foreclosure of a materialman\u2019s lien, takes possession of the property has no bearing upon whether the mortgagee is estopped from attacking the materialman\u2019s lien for fraud, since after default the mortgagee is entitled to possession under his mortgage irrespective of any foreclosure sale.\n2. Appeal and Error \u00a7 60\u2014\nWhere the Supreme Court has held that a mortgagee was not estopped from attacking the validity of a materialman\u2019s lien, thie decision becomes the law of the case, and an appeal from order .of the 'Superior Court in conformity with the decision will be dismissed in the absence of new evidence sufficient to affect the ruling.\nAppeal by defendant from Johnston, J., May 20, 1963, Session. of Fobsyth.\nFred M. Parrish, Jr. and Weston P. Hatfield for 'plaintiff.\nFrank C. Ausband and Clyde C. Randolph, Jr., for defendant."
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