Supreme Court of North Carolina November 9, 1898 (Watkins v. . Williams)

Faikcloth, C. J.:

The plaintiffs are the only heirs at law of D. S. Watkins, who died intestate in October, 1882. It appears from the record that' said Watkins, in June, 1882, had executed a mortgage on the lands in controversy, about 207 acres, to Hadley & Dixon to secure a debt of $50 due them and payable December 1, 1882, and that he applied to the defendant, his brother-in-law, to take up