Scull v. . Pruden
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a civil action for possession of laucl, tried at the Fall Term, 1883, of Hertford Superior Court, before Avery, Judge, and a jury.
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This was a civil action for possession of laucl, tried at the Fall Term, 1883, of Hertford Superior Court, before Avery, Judge, and a jury. The plaintiff claimed the land in controversy under a deed made to one Stephen Smith by Thomas B. Sharp, which contained the following description of the land conveyed, to-wit: tl The Mount Pleasant Fishery,” with the land attached to the same, supposed to be one thousand yards in length, bounded by the brink or brow of the hill on one side and the river on the other, from one end of the beach to the other. It was admitted that the title was out of the…
1Opinion of the CourtAsi-ie, J.
(after stating the facts). The locus in quo is a wharf on the shore of the Chowan river, and the question presented by the record is whether the description in a deed, executed by Thomas B. Sharp to Sophia Smith, under which the plaintiffs claim, covers the wharf.-
This involves a construction of the said deed. The subject-matter of the conveyance is described in the deed as follows: “The Mount Pleasant Fishery, with the land attached to the same, supposed to be one thousand yards in length, bounded by the brink or brow of the hill on one side, and the river on the other, from one end of the…
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