Piland v. . Taylor
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil action to recover land, tried at Spring Term, 1893, of Gates Superior Court, before Bynum, J., and a jury. Upon the trial the defendants offered in evidence a deed conveying the locus, which was objected to by plaintiff on the grounds referred to in the opinion of Chief Justice Shepherd. The objection being sustained, the defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Shepherd, 0. J.:
The question presented for our consideration is, whether there was error on the part of the Court in excluding the deed which was offered in evidence by the defendants. This deed purports to have been executed in August, 1852, by one Elisha Umphlett to Henry L. Eure, and was registered on the 18th of January, 1861. It appears from the certificate of probate that it was proved upon the oath of one of the subscribing witnesses before R. B. G. Cowper, deputy clerk, and it is insisted that as the Clerk, Henry L. Eure, was the grantee in the said deed, his deputy could not, by…
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