Forney v. . Williamson
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a proceeding to have certain lands processioned, heard upon exceptions to the report of a jury of freeholders. The clerk confirmed the report, from which the defendants appealed, and the appeal was tried before Gilmer, Judge, at Pall Term, 1886, of Brunswick Superior Court, when the judgment of the clerk was affirmed. Thereupon the defendants appealed to the Supreme Court. The facts necessary to an understanding of the case are fully stated in the opinion
1Opinion of the CourtMbrrimoN, J.
This proceeding is very informal and imperfect in many material respects, and cannot be upheld in its present shape and condition, notwithstanding the appellant is the petitioner, and ought, therefore,,to have conducted it on his part according to the course 'prescribed by the statute.
This method of settling the boundaries and disputed lines of tracts of land is out of the ordinary course of civil procedure, and, at best, not a very satisfactory one.
The statutory provisions and regulations respecting it must be strictly observed in all material respects. Otherwise, it will settle nothing, but…
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