Brown v. . House
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Action to recover land, tried before Armfield, J., and a jury, at August Term, 1893, of MadisoN Superior Court. There was judgment for defendants and plaintiff appealed. The material facts, upon which the decision turns, appear in the opinion of Associate Justice Eukohes.
1DissentAvery, J.
This is an action of ejectment brought to this Court on appeal of plaintiff. Plaintiff for the purpose of making out his title offered in evidence a grant from the State of North Carolina to himself issued on 18 June, 1890. And it being admitted by defendant that it covered the land in question, and it also being admitted that defendant was in possession, plaintiff rested his case.
The defendant for the purpose of showing that the land claimed by plaintiff had been granted prior to the date of plaintiff's grant, and was not the subject of grant in 1890, offered in evidence a grant from the…
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