Doe on Demise of Taylor v. Roe
Supreme Court of North Carolina
From Iredell. Ejjsctmejvt. The plaintiff’s lessor claimed the land in dispute, lying in Lincoln county, by virtue of a grant issuing to his father in 1768 from the crown of Great Britain. The defendant claimed the land under a grant from the state of North-Carolina of recent date; and contended, that the land was within the boundaries of Earl Gran-mile's grant, which being antecedent to that under which plaintiff claimed, the latter conveyed nothing to plaintiff.
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From Iredell. Ejjsctmejvt. The plaintiff’s lessor claimed the land in dispute, lying in Lincoln county, by virtue of a grant issuing to his father in 1768 from the crown of Great Britain. The defendant claimed the land under a grant from the state of North-Carolina of recent date; and contended, that the land was within the boundaries of Earl Gran-mile's grant, which being antecedent to that under which plaintiff claimed, the latter conveyed nothing to plaintiff. On the trial below, before Nash, Judge, it appeared that, from the year 1753, acts of the legislature of JNorth-Carolina had been…
1Opinion of the Court
The defendant claimed the land under a grant from the State of North Carolina of recent date, and contended that the land was within the boundaries of Earl Granville's grant, which being antecedent to that under which plaintiff claimed, the latter conveyed nothing to plaintiff.
On the trial before Nash, J., it appeared that from the year 1753 acts of the Legislature of North Carolina had been passed, at various times, up to 1779, which acts call for and point out Earl Granville's line as the boundary between different counties; that in 1772 the line so called for by those acts had been…
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