Lafoon v. . Shearin
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil action, tried before Clark, Judge, at August Civil Term, 1885, of Wake Superior Court. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
This action was prosecuted to recover possession of part of a tract of land, devised in 1837 to the plaintiff by her grandfather, John Shearin, which she alleges is wrongfully withheld by the defendant.
The complaint avers that the plaintiff, at the age of sixteen years, intermarried with one Jas. Lafoon, who died in August, 1878.
All the material statements in respect to the subject matter in controversy made in the complaint, are denied in the • answer. In the progress of the cause, the plaintiff died, and her heirs-at-law were made parties to the action in her place, as to a portion of whom,…
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