Freeman v. . Person
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a civil action, for the recovery of land, tried before Shipp, J., at August Term, 1889, of the Superior Court of Moore County. The plaintiff claimed title in part under a deed executed by K. H. AVorthy, as Sheriff of Moore County, to A. IT. McNeill, John Shaw and J. C. Jackson, the land in controversy having been sold under sundry executions against one John Morrison. The defendants objected to the introduction of this deed, for the reason that A. PI.
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This was a civil action, for the recovery of land, tried before Shipp, J., at August Term, 1889, of the Superior Court of Moore County. The plaintiff claimed title in part under a deed executed by K. H. AVorthy, as Sheriff of Moore County, to A. IT. McNeill, John Shaw and J. C. Jackson, the land in controversy having been sold under sundry executions against one John Morrison. The defendants objected to the introduction of this deed, for the reason that A. PI. McNeill, one of the grantees in said deed, was, at the time of the probate thereof, Clerk of the Superior Court of Moore County,…
1Opinion of the Court
Avery, J.:
The Code, § 1260, as amended by chapter 252 of the Laws of 1889, is as follows :
“ Wherever the Judge of the Supreme Court or the Superior Court, or the Clerk or deputy Clerk of the Superior Court, mistaking their powers, have essayed, previously to the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, to take the probate of deeds and the privy examination of femes covert, whose names are signed to such deeds, and have ordered said deeds to registration, and the same have been registered, all such probates, privy examinations and registrations, so taken and had, shall…
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