Den. on Dem. of Corn v. McCrary
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Action of ejectment, tried before his Honor, Judge Manly, at the Eall Term, 1855, of Henderson Superior Court. The title of the plaintiff’s lessor consisted of a grant from the State for the land conrprised within the linos 23, 28, 7, 21, and thence hack to 23, in the annexed diagram, and showed the defendant in possession of the locus in quo.
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Action of ejectment, tried before his Honor, Judge Manly, at the Eall Term, 1855, of Henderson Superior Court. The title of the plaintiff’s lessor consisted of a grant from the State for the land conrprised within the linos 23, 28, 7, 21, and thence hack to 23, in the annexed diagram, and showed the defendant in possession of the locus in quo. Tlie defendant showed title to the land contained in the figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and thence hack to 1, by a grant to one Jacob Shipman for three hundred acres, dated in 1794. The defendant also showed title to a tract of land of one hundred acres,…
1Opinion of the CourtPearson, J.
The only point presented by the case is in reference to the location of the last line of a grant td Edward Shipman for one hundred acres, dated 1802. The location of the grant to Jacob Shipman for three hundred acres, dated 1194, is assumed to be as represented on the plot; and it is assumed that the south line of that grant, from the chestnut corner near 5, to 6, is the Shipman line called for in the grant of 1802. That line was not marked, and was a “ mathematical Une between established corners.” The third line of a grant of 1802, from a stake at 10, on the plot calls, “ thence N. 61 deg.…
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