Staton v. . Mullis
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ActioN for the possession of land, heard before MacRae, Judge, and a jury, at Spring Term, 1884, of UNION Superior Court. The facts appear fully in the opinion. There was a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, and the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
In support of his title to the land iu dispute, the plaintiff introduced a grant from the State, issued on the 20th day of December, 1799, to Francis Coburn, and successive deeds from him to the plaintiff. The last in the series is a deed made on May 3, 1832, by Frederick Staton to his son, the plaintiff, purporting to convey a tract of five hundred acres, parcel of the original grant. Objection was made to the admission in evidence of the grant and of the two deeds, more especially that from John Cobb to Vernal Adams for two hundred acres, executed in October; 1814, upon various grounds that…
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