Vaughn v. Burton

In the year 1899 complaint for land was brought by Jane Vaughn, Emma P. Vaughn, and Nancy Seymour against Mary Burton, to recover three-sevenths undivided interest in certain described real estate. The plaintiffs introduced evidence that they were the children of Grayanna Vaughn, and that the latter was dead. They then proved that the original deed, which was made by Deadwyler, administrator, to Grayanna Vaughn and her children, which covered the land in dispute, and under which the plaintiffs claimed, was lost and could not be found by diligent search. They then offered in evidence “ a…