Supreme Court of North Carolina June 5, 1876 (Pullen v. . Green)

Bynum, J.

The construction of a contract is a matter of law. But if the contract is verbal, as it was here, and the terms are uncertain and disputed, they may be submitted to the jury as a matter of fact.

Festerman

v.

Parker,

10 Ired., 474.

An issue was directed whether the contract was by the year or the month, and the jury found that it was by the month.