Patrick v. Jefferson Standard Life Insurance
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN, tried before Adams, J., and a jury, at March Term, 1918, of Guilkord. The suit was brought to quiet the title to a certain parcel of land in the city of Greensboro west of and adjoining the courthouse lot, or square, being 4 feet wide and extending from West Market (formerly Main) Street 87 feet and 10 inches north from said str.eet, it being the western half of an alley which lay between the courthouse square (sold by Solomon Hopkins to the county) and the brick…
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ActioN, tried before Adams, J., and a jury, at March Term, 1918, of Guilkord. The suit was brought to quiet the title to a certain parcel of land in the city of Greensboro west of and adjoining the courthouse lot, or square, being 4 feet wide and extending from West Market (formerly Main) Street 87 feet and 10 inches north from said str.eet, it being the western half of an alley which lay between the courthouse square (sold by Solomon Hopkins to the county) and the brick building known as the Patrick or Porter & Gorrell storehouse, the other, or eastern, half of the alley being part of the…
1Opinion of the Court
WalkeR, J.,
after stating tbe ease: Tbe plaintiff claims tbat by reason of tbe words of reservation in tbe deed of ber busband, T. J.' Patrick, to Porter & Gorrell, and tbe will of ber busband, wbieb devises all bis real estate to ber, sbe is now tbe owner of tbe 4-foot strip of land before described, while defendants claim tbat no such reservation was intended by Thomas J. Patrick, bis only object being to afford him and Porter & Gorrell an outlet to West Market Street, and tbat when there was no longer, any necessity for this use of tbe alleyway it passed by clear intendment of Patrick to…
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