Marsh v. . Richardson
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a civil actioN, for recovery of land, tried before Clark, at February Term, 1889, of the Superior Court of UNION County.
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This was a civil actioN, for recovery of land, tried before Clark, at February Term, 1889, of the Superior Court of UNION County. Plaintiff offered in evidence two deeds executed to himself by the widow and heirs at law of Uñas Horn, deceased, bearing dates, respectively, 1843, 1851, both of which deeds were duly recorded, and purport to convey in fee-simple, a tract of land, as represented on the plat, by the boundaries 1, 2, 3, Plaintiff next offered in evidence— 1. Deed from plaintiff to J. A. Dunn, dated January 1, 18G9. 2. Deed from J. A. Dunn to J. A. Marsh, bearing same date. 3. Deed…
1Opinion of the CourtAvery, J.
after stating the facts: The disputed territory is designated on the plot by the letters C B A D C, and the title to it depends upon the questions, whether the second call of the deed from plaintiff to J. A. Marsh, and that from the latter to defendant (the description in both being the same), terminates at C or B, and whether the third call in said deeds terminates at D or A. The material portion of the description in said deed was as follows, viz.:
‘'Beginning at a stake by a post-oak at the end of a lane, C. Rogers’ corner; thence with his line south 75 west one chain and 80 links to a…
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