Stancill v. Spain
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by G. A. Stancill against Alafair and Bedmond Spain, heard by Judge Garland 8. Ferguson and a jury, at April Term, 1903, of the Superior Court of Pitt County-Prom a judgment for the defendants the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
OonnoR,, J.
This is an action for the recovery of the possession of a tract of land described in the complaint by metes and bounds, “containing by estimation 122 acres, more or less, and being a part of the land known as the Bensboro farm.” The defendants denied that plaintiff was owner of' the land or that they wrongfully withheld possession thereof. The general issue as to plaintiff’s ownership was submitted to the jury. There was evidence tending to show that Peyton-Atldnson, on July 14, 1847, purchased the land in controversy from one Hives; that, upon his death, in a proceeding for…
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