Gaylord v. . Respass
Supreme Court of North Carolina
CiyiIj ACTION for the recovery of land, heard before Qudger, Judge, and a jury, at Spring Term, 1884, of Beaufort Superior Court. The land, the titlé to a part of which is drawn in question in this suit, in 1809 belonged to John Gaylord, and both parties claim under him.
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CiyiIj ACTION for the recovery of land, heard before Qudger, Judge, and a jury, at Spring Term, 1884, of Beaufort Superior Court. The land, the titlé to a part of which is drawn in question in this suit, in 1809 belonged to John Gaylord, and both parties claim under him. He died soon after, leaving a widow Lucretia, and having made a will, that was admitted to probate the following year, wherein said land is devised to his six children by name, the plaintiff being one of them. Subsequently the plaintiff obtained two other shares. In January, 1811, Lucretia Gaylord, assuming to act in the…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
(after stating the facts as above). The only exception taken, and not abandoned on the hearing in this Court, during the examination of the witnesses, was to the introduction of the deed from Eespass, Senior, to the plaintiff and the other children of John Gaylord, made in April, 1819, on the ground of incompetency and irrelevancy, and for the further reason that the plaintiff, if not others, was then an infant.
Any properly registered deed, or certified copy from the registry, is competent, when pertinent to the issue, or inquiry pending, whatever may be its legal effect, and when made to…
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