Taylor v. . Meadows
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by plaintiff from Rountree, J., at November Term, 1914, of GRANVILLE. Civil action to recover a narrow strip of land abutting 30 to 35 feet on Williamsboro Street in tbe town of Oxford, and on complaint by R. P. Taylor and wife, Bettie Taylor, alleging generally tbat tbey were owners of tbe land in controversy, describing it, and tbat defendants were in tbe wrongful possession of tbe same, and answer of defendants denying the allegations.
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Appeal by plaintiff from Rountree, J., at November Term, 1914, of GRANVILLE. Civil action to recover a narrow strip of land abutting 30 to 35 feet on Williamsboro Street in tbe town of Oxford, and on complaint by R. P. Taylor and wife, Bettie Taylor, alleging generally tbat tbey were owners of tbe land in controversy, describing it, and tbat defendants were in tbe wrongful possession of tbe same, and answer of defendants denying the allegations. Among other testimony, tbe will of L. C. Taylor, father of male plaintiff, was put in evidence, in terms as follows: (1) I appoint my son, Richard P.…
1Opinion of the CourtIIoKE, J.
There were facts in evidence tending to show that in 1880 Dr. L. C. Taylor, father of male plaintiff, owned a large lot of land in the town of Oxford, abutting on Williamsboro Street, and in that year he conveyed a half acre of same, thereafter known as the prize-house lot, extending 135 feet along said street and lying east of his residence lot, to Walter Biggs, and the lot has passed by successive conveyances to Kader Biggs, to J. M. Currin, and then, by commissioner’s sale and deed, to defendant Meadows, who is now in possession, claiming to be the owner and that his deeds cover the land…
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- In Re the Will of StimpsonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1958
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