Williamson v. . Boykin
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Certiorari — Laches. PETITION of defendants for a writ of certiorari, heard at February Term, 1888, of the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the CourtMerbimoN, J.
This is an application for the writ of cer-tiorari as a substitute for an appeal lost.
It appears that the respondents obtained judgment in an action lately pending in the Superior Court of the County of Wilson, at the Fall Term thereof of 1886, for the recovery of the land described in the complaint for damages and costs. TJie defendants in that action, the present petitioners, took an appeal from that judgment and notice thereof was waived and they were allowed thirty days within which to perfect their appeal, hut they never did so.
They allege in the sworn petition, that they did not perfect…
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