Hill v. . Jackson
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from the Superior Court of Law of Randolph County, at the Spring Term 1849, his Honor Judge Dick presiding. This is an action of trespass quare clausum fregit. The plaintiff claimed to hold the land in question under a grant, issued in 1843, to Jesse Walker and Marsh Dor-, sett.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Law of Randolph County, at the Spring Term 1849, his Honor Judge Dick presiding. This is an action of trespass quare clausum fregit. The plaintiff claimed to hold the land in question under a grant, issued in 1843, to Jesse Walker and Marsh Dor-, sett. The defendant claimed to hold under a grant issued in 1783 to Absalom Tatum and William Moore, which also covered the land in dispute ; and, to sustain his allegation, offered in evidence the copy of a grant issued by the Secretary of State to Tatum and Moore* which was registered by the Register of Randolph…
1Opinion of the CourtNash, J.
The first objection is, that the copy of the grant to Tatum and Moore, which was offered in evidence by the defendant, was incomplete, and had not been registered in the County of Randolph, within the time prescribed by law. The first branch of the objection is not true in point of fact — the copy is complete. As to the second branch, the facts were, that the copy was not registered until the sitting of the Court. The grant is dated in 1783, and ought by the terms of the act of 1783 to have been registered within twelve months from its date. But the Legislature has uniformly, with one…
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