Doe on Demise of Bryan v. Brown

From Craven. Ejectment. — Harvey Bryan died seised in fee of the land described in the Plaintiff’s declaration, he devised it to his son John Council Bryan the lessor of the Plaintiff, who is still an infant. The Defendant claimed title to the land under a deed made to him by the Sheriff of Craven county, who sold the land by virtue of an execution issuing Irom Jones Superior Court. , It appeared from the record of Jones Court, which made part of the case, that a writ had issued against Nathaniel Tisdale and Dorcas Bryan, executors of Hardy Bryan, at the instance of William Coombs, to which…