Warlick v. . Plonk
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil actioN, tried before Boykin, J., at Spring Term, 1888, of Cleveland Superior Court. The plaintiffs, as heirs-at-law of Christy Eaker, who died in 1885, intestate, derived title to the land sued for, under a grant from the State, and successive intermediate conveyances terminating with their ancestor. The defendant claims it under deeds from one Neal to Alex.
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Civil actioN, tried before Boykin, J., at Spring Term, 1888, of Cleveland Superior Court. The plaintiffs, as heirs-at-law of Christy Eaker, who died in 1885, intestate, derived title to the land sued for, under a grant from the State, and successive intermediate conveyances terminating with their ancestor. The defendant claims it under deeds from one Neal to Alex. Norton, dated in 1847, from Norton to Froneberger, made in 1856, and from the latter to himself, executed the same day, and an alleged continuous and adverse possession from the year 1847 to the death of said Eaker. To rebut the…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
(after stating the case). Without instituting an inquiry into the nature and extent of the disability which gives immunity to persons, thus designated in the statute, from the consequences of delay in bringing suit when their rights of property are involved, we think the instruction of the Judge leaves nothing unsaid or given of which the appellant can complain. Quite as unfounded is his exception to what was said and done when the jury came into Court and announced their failure to agree upon a verdict. The directions given them were entirely fit and proper, as tending to bring about…
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