Supreme Court of North Carolina February 5, 1890 (Alston v. . Hawkins)

Shepherd, J.:

-“The presumption of payment arising from lapse of time under the statute is one which the law itself makes, and it has such au artificial and technical weight that whenever the facts are admitted, or established, the Court 'must apply it as an inference or intendment of the law; and so, too, the question whether that presumption has

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been rebutted is one of law, which, when the