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  "name": "LOGAN N. WILSON vs. RACHEL PHARR",
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      "LOGAN N. WILSON vs. RACHEL PHARR."
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        "text": "Nash, C. J.\nIn the judgment below, there is error. By the 79th section of the Act of 1836, Bev. Stat. ch. 31, it is enacted: \u201c the party in whose favor judgment shall be given, or in oase of a non suit, dismission or discontinuance, the defendant shall be entitled to full costs, unless where it is or may be otherwise directed by Statute.\u201d \u00a5e know of no subsequent Act altering this general provision, except in special cases.\nIn this case, the defendant, after the cause had been put to issue, pleaded, since the last continuance, accord and satisfaction\u25a0, which was admitted by the plaintiff, and a judgment of non suit was rendered against him.\nOhitty, in his work on pleading, vol. 1, pages 638 & \u20199, says, that a plea since the last continuance is a matter of right, if pleaded in apt time. If not so pleaded, its admission is a matter of discretion with the Court, to be granted on such terms as it may deem proper. Here the plea was offered in \u25a0apt time, and upon its reception, judgment of nonsuit was rendered against the plaintiff. It is brought precisely under the restriction of the Act referred to. The question of costs in this State is regulated by Statute. In the case of Gubbs v. Ellis, 2 Car. L. Rep. 612, see also Morgan v. Cone, 1 Dev. and Bat. 234, where this point is also decided. In the first, the plaintiff, during the pendency of the suit, took possession of the premises in question, which being pleaded since the last continuance, \u201c the Court held, the costs must necessarily be paid by the plaintiff, whose entry on the premises has destroyed the effect of his writ.\u201d In this case, the accord and receiving satisfaction, since the last continuance, by the plaintiff, destroyed the effect of his writ, and he could not recover an\\ judgment against the defendant for the debt claimed.\nPee Cueiam. Judgment below, in favor of the plaintiff, for his costs, is reversed, and judgment rendered for the defendant to recover his costs against the plaintiff.",
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        "author": "Nash, C. J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Ho Counsel appeared for the plaintiff.",
      "Gui\u00f3n, for the defendant."
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    "head_matter": "LOGAN N. WILSON vs. RACHEL PHARR.\nUpon a plea \u201c since the last continuance,\u201d pleaded in apt' time, and found to be true, the plaintiff, under the Statute of 1836, (Rev. Stat. chap. 31, sec. 79,) must pay the whole costs of the suit.\nActioN of assumpsit, tried before Manly Judge, Spring Term, 1855, of Cabarrus Superior Court.\nThe case at first stood on the plea of \u201cnon assumpsit.\u201d\nAt this term the defendant pleaded further, \u201c aeeord and satisfaction since the last continuance? which plea the plaintiffs admitted to be true.\nThere were cross motions for the taxation of costs, but his Honor being of opinion that the plaintiff was entitled to costs, up to the time of entering the plea since the last continuance, gave judgment against the defendant, from which he appealed.\nHo Counsel appeared for the plaintiff.\nGui\u00f3n, for the defendant."
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