Doe Ex Rel. Dula v. M'Ghee
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from the Superior Court of Law of Wilkes County, Spring Term, 1851, his Honor Judge Battle presiding. The facts of the case are set out in the opinion of the Court. There was judgment tor the defendant, and the plaintiff appealed. '
1Opinion of the CourtNash, J.
The action is ejectment. The plaintiff claims under a grant issued by the State to him in 1848, which oovers the locus in quo. The defendant introduced a grant from the State to David McGhee, dated in 1788, which commenced at the index in the plat and ran around to figure 3. Its call is for a line thence west, crossing Beaver’s Creek to a Hickory corner on said Creek; then South to the beginning. The defendant then gave in evidence a conveyance from David McGhee to his son Bluford Mc-Ghee, under whom she claims. This deed for the northern part of the Patent, has its calls for a chesnut tree…
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