Eastern Land, Lumber & Manufacturing Co. v. State Board of Education
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This is civil ACTION which was tried before Montgomery, J., at June Term, 1887, of PasquotaNK Superior Court. The object of the suit is to restrain the defendants from expelling the plaintiffs, their agents and servants from the lands in controversy, (under § 1121 of The Code,) and to remove cloud upon their title.
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This is civil ACTION which was tried before Montgomery, J., at June Term, 1887, of PasquotaNK Superior Court. The object of the suit is to restrain the defendants from expelling the plaintiffs, their agents and servants from the lands in controversy, (under § 1121 of The Code,) and to remove cloud upon their title. The following'are the material parts of the “ case agreed” and submitted to the Court for its judgment thereupon: “ The land in controversy was granted by the State to John Gray Blount, September 7, 1795. On March 24; 1873, the heirs at law of said John Gray Blount, for a…
1Opinion of the CourtMerrimon, J.
On the argument the counsel for the appellant properly conceded that the plaintiff, appellee, shows apparently title to the land in controversy, because it shows a grant therefor from the State to John Gray Blount, dated the 7th day of September, 1795, and that it derives title from him through sundry mesne conveyances, the regularity and sufficiency of which, as to order and form, are not questioned.
But the appellant contends first, that the grantee Blount conveyed the land before 180(5 to Thomas Fitts, and that the deed mentioned of the Sheriff, executed to the Governor, purporting to…
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