Ritchie v. Fowler.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by W. R. L. Ritchie against Frederick Fowler and others, heard by Judge M. H. Justice and a jury, at November Term, 1902, of the Superior Court of MacoN County. From a judgment for the plaintiff, the defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtClark, C. J.
One Howard entered, under the law as to Cherokee lands (The Code, Vol. 2, Ch. 11), three tracts of land for 700 acres in June, 1855, and two other tracts for three hundred acres in June, 1853. The purchase money was thereafter duly paid. Subsequently (when, is not stated) these entries were duly srirveyed, located and bounded. In February, 1870, grants for the above five tracts were issued to the assignees of Howard and registered in Macon County November, 1885, and said grantees conveyed to the plaintiff by deed duly registered.
In April, 1867, the same lands (as is admitted) were entered by…
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