Stewart v. . Stephenson
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil actioet to recover damages for an alleged trespass on real estate, involving also an issue as to title, tried before Devin, J., and a jury, at September Term, 1915, of HarNEtt.
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Civil actioet to recover damages for an alleged trespass on real estate, involving also an issue as to title, tried before Devin, J., and a jury, at September Term, 1915, of HarNEtt. Plaintiff claimed and offered evidence tending to show that he owned a tract of land lying in said county, and that the true dividing line between himself and defendant was a “zigzag” line of various courses and distances “along the southwest side of Black Eiver Swamp” and designated on the surveyor’s plat from 1 to 14; that defendant had wrongfully entered and cut timber on said land, and that the damage done to…
1Opinion of the CourtHoke, J.
Plaintiff alleged his ownership of a tract of land on waters of Black River, and described the same by metes and bounds, in which the southwest call, and the one .significant in this controversy, is as follows : “To a small gum, the old Atkins corner; thence as the old Atkins line down the various courses of the southwest side of the Black River Swamp, about 115.40 chains to a stake, etc., represented on the court plat by the line from 1 to 14.”
The defendant alleged ownership of the tract adjoining on the southwest, and alleged and offered evidence tending to show that the line was not the…
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- Hemphill v. Hemphill.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1905
- Lamb v. . CopelandSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1912
- Sullivan v. . BlountSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1914
- Taylor v. . MeadowsSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1915
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