King v. . Wells
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ACTION, for the recovery of land, tried before Gudger, Judge, and a jury, at- August- Term, 1885, of the Superior Court of Buncombe county.
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Civil ACTION, for the recovery of land, tried before Gudger, Judge, and a jury, at- August- Term, 1885, of the Superior Court of Buncombe county. The action was originally brought by Mary King, who filed the complaint herein, and at Spring Term, 1883, she having died since the beginning of the action, her heirs-at-law were permitted to make themselves parties plaintiff, and at the trial of the cause, by consent of the defendants, the said heirs adopted the complaint as theirs. The plaintiffs claim to be owners in fee simple of a tract of land, set forth by metes and bounds in their said…
1Opinion of the CourtAshe, J.
(after stating the facts). There was a good deal of evidence offered on the trial, and numerous exceptions taken by the plaintiffs to the ruling of the Court upon questions arising upon inadmissibility of evidence, all of which, except those herein set forth, we think impertinent to the real merits of the controversy.
After stripping the case of all extraneous and irrelevant matter, it narrows itself down to the exceptions taken by the plaintiffs to the charge of the Judge to the jury, in his instructions as to the presumption of a deed after an actual possession of twenty years, and the bar…
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