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        "text": "Davis, J.,\n(after stating the case as above). The plaintiffs-move in this Court to affirm the judgment, \u201cupon the ground that no exception was taken by the defendant to the said judgment, and no errors are assigned in the statement of the case or in the record, for consideration and revision by the Court.\u201d The case was settled by the Court \u201c as upon disagreement, by consent.\u201d It was not stated by the appellant,, and as stated by his ILonor, it presents concisely and clearly the matter in controversy, and the \u201c ground of error is sufficiently assigned \u201d within the ruling in Lytle v. Lytle, 94 N. C., 522. Neither by the authority of that case, nor by Pleasants v. The Rail Road, 95 N. C., 195, nor Justice v. The Rail Road, 96 N. C., 412, nor Rule 7, can the motion to affinn be sustained.\nWas there error in the judgment? Two issues were submitted, one was set aside as against the weight of evidence, and upon the other, judgment was rendered for the plaintiffs. With'this judgment the defendant was dissatisfied, and from it he appealed; and it is not necessary \u201cto roam through the record \u201d or to have a \u201c chart and compass\u201d to find the alleged ground of error.\nWas the first issue necessary to a just determination of the action? If so, the finding of the jury upon that issue having been set aside as against the weight of evidence, the \u2022defendant was entitled to a new trial.\nIf the land in dispute was embraced in the deed from R. L. Allen to the defendant, might not the defendant notwithstanding the lease to Lassiter and the sub-lease by Lassiter to himself, set up as against Allen or his heirs, after the expiration of the lease, the title which he himself had acquired from Allen? In a Court of Equity would not Allen be es-topped by his deed from asserting his right of possession ?\nNo proposition is better settled as a rule of law, than that a lessee is not permitted while continuing in possession to \u2022dispute the lessor\u2019s title. He must surrender the possession before he can contest the title. But as was said in the case \u2022of Davis v. Davis, 83 N. C., 71, Chief Justice Smiti-i, delivering the opinion: \u2018\u2018 The rule does not preclude the tenant from showing an equitable title in himself, or such circumstances as under our former system would call for an interposition of a Court of Equity for relief, and which relief may now be had in one action.\u201d\nNow that law and equity \u201care administered by the same Court, and without any distinction of form, the tenant can set up in his answer any equitable defence he may have to his landlord\u2019s claims.\u201d\n\u201c Calloway v. Hamby, 65 N. C., 631,\u201d says Rodman, Judge, \u201c is a case in which that was successfully done, and the defendants were held entitled to a specific performance of the plantiff\u2019s covenant to convey the land.\u201d\nWe think the first issue was a proper one, and the defendant is entitled to a new trtal.\nError. Reversed.",
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      "Mr. J. N. Holding, for the plaintiffs.",
      "Messrs. D. G. Foivle and A. Jones, for the defendant."
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    "head_matter": "MINTA ALLEN, ROBERT ALLEN and T. M. ALLEN v. FERNEY GRIFFIN.\nEstoppel \u2014 Landlord and Tenant \u2014 Appeal\u2014Assignment of Error.\n1. An appeal will not be dismissed for absence of formal exceptions or assignment of error, when the record or 1 \u2018 the case \u201d clearly discloses the ground of appeal.\n2. The rule that a tenant is estopped from denying his landlord\u2019s title, does not preclude him from showing an equitable title in himself, or such circumstances as will entitle him to equitable relief against the landlord\u2019s claims.\n(Dytley. Dytle, 94 N. C., 522; Pleasants v. Railroad, 95 N. C., 195; Justice y. Railroad, 96 N. C., 412; Davis v. Davis, 83 N. 0., 71; and Calloway v. Hamby, 65 N. C., 681; cited and approved).\nCivil action, for the recovery of land, tried before Sheppard, Judge, at the February Term, 1887, of Wake Superior Court.\nThe plaintiffs are the heirs-at-law of one R. L. Allen, deceased, and as such claims the land in dispute.\nThe defendant claims under a deed executed to him by said R. L. Allen in November, 1879.\nThe following issues were submitted to the jury:\n1st. Is the land in controversy embraced in the deed from R. L. Allen to the defendant?\n2d. Did the defendant enter upon said land as the tenant of R. L. Allen?\n3d. What is the yearly value of the land ?\nIt was admitted that R. L. Allen remained is possession of the land in controversy after the execution of the deed to the defendant. It was also admitted that R. L. Allen rented the said land in the year 1880, for that year to one W. C. Lassiter, and that said Lassiter sub-let it for that year to the defendant, and that the defendant has been in possession thereof ever since, never having surrendered the possession to the said R. L. Allen, or to the plaintiffs herein. It was also conceded that the defendant never had actual possession until he rented the land as aforesaid from said Lassiter.\nThe jury answered the first issue in the negative and the second in the affirmative.\n\u201c The Court set aside the finding upon the first issue as being against the weight of testimony, but upon the second issue gave judgment for the plantiffs as set out in the record, because, although the plaintiffs (defendant) might have title to the locus in quo, it appeared that the defendant had entered the locus in quo after the execution of the deed from R. L. Allen, under which he claimed as the tenant of said R. L. Allen; and said tenancy having expired before the commencement of this action, the defendant was estopped to deny the plaintiffs\u2019 title to the locus in quo after accepting-the said tenancy, until he had surrendered the possession to-the lessor.\u201d\nFrom the judgment set out in the record the defendant-appealed to the Supreme Court.\nMr. J. N. Holding, for the plaintiffs.\nMessrs. D. G. Foivle and A. Jones, for the defendant."
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