Yount v. . Miller
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Ejectment tried at Fall Term, 1884, of Catawba. Superior Court, before Gilmer, J. Oil the trial the plaintiff introduced one Little as a witness, and handed him the plat made by the surveyor, and asked him if he was acquainted with the land represented therein.
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Ejectment tried at Fall Term, 1884, of Catawba. Superior Court, before Gilmer, J. Oil the trial the plaintiff introduced one Little as a witness, and handed him the plat made by the surveyor, and asked him if he was acquainted with the land represented therein. He testified he was well acquainted with all the land,' and had been for forty or fifty years; that when he first knew the land Frederick Hope was in possession, and after him, John Yount succeeded to the possession fifteen or twenty years before his death ; and that John-Yount held land all around these lands, and Joshua A. Yount, the…
1Opinion of the CourtAshe, J.
The facts of this case are very vaguely and obscurely presented. And some of the important facts of the case, we have the opinion, were proved or admitted because no question was raised about them in the record. Por instance, we must take it for granted that the land allotted to the widow for dower and the lot assigned to Smith and wife in the partition covered the locus in quo, and also that, the deed made by Lafayette Yount to the defendant covered the same land, and that the.defendant was in possession when the action was brought.
Beginning with these assumptions, which we think warranted…
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