Beaufort Lumber Co. v. Price
Supreme Court of North Carolina
MotioN by defendants to dissolve injunction, heard by Shaw, J.j at October Term, 1906, Superior Court of Cha-ven County. The motion was granted and plaintiff appealed. The plaintiff company seeks to enjoin the defendants from cutting and removing timber from the land described in the complaint, alleging ownership, etc.
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MotioN by defendants to dissolve injunction, heard by Shaw, J.j at October Term, 1906, Superior Court of Cha-ven County. The motion was granted and plaintiff appealed. The plaintiff company seeks to enjoin the defendants from cutting and removing timber from the land described in the complaint, alleging ownership, etc. Defendants, denying that plaintiff is the owner, .aver that they are the owners of said lands and allege that plaintiff threatens to cut and remove timber, etc. Tbe Court, by consent, found tbe following facts: That on 1 June, 1899, one Boyd and bis infant children were tbe…
1Opinion of the Court
Connor, J.,
after stating tbe case: It is conceded that, by purchasing tbe standing timber subsequent to tbe listing of the land for taxation, tbe plaintiff company took title subject to tbe lien acquired by tbe State. It follows, therefore, that tbe purchaser at tbe sale by the Sheriff for taxes would, if tbe law bad been complied with, have acquired a good title to tbe land, including the standing timber. It is also conceded that more than two years having elapsed between the day of the sale, 25 June, 1901, and the date of the deed, 30 January, 1903, Mr. Nunn acquired no title to either the…
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