Legal Opinion

Blount v. Benbury.

Superior Court of North Carolina

Decided October 5, 1805PublishedCited by 1 opinion

uT’HE plaintiff offered a copy of a grant from the Secretary’s office : it was not signed by the Governor.

1Opinion of the Court

It cannot be received as a copy of a grant, but it may as a circumstance to show that there was once a grant in existence.

It was read. The dispute concerned the title of land between two parallel lines. The lower of them was said to be J. Blount's patent line; and if so, defendant was not in possession of plaintiff's land; but if the upper parallel line was J. Blount's patent line, then the defendant was in the possession of plaintiff's land. The patent under which the defendant claimed called for Beasley's line and J. Blount's line, S. 85 E. as one of the boundaries; and the grantor to…

2Cited by1 opinion

  1. Wright v. Commercial Credit Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1937

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