Proctor v. . Ferebee
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a bill filed by the plaintiff against the defendant, in Pasquotank Court of Equity, to which there was an answer by the defendant, and which, at the Spring Term, 1840, of that Court, was set for hearing, and ordered, by consent, to be transmitted to the Supreme Court.
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This was a bill filed by the plaintiff against the defendant, in Pasquotank Court of Equity, to which there was an answer by the defendant, and which, at the Spring Term, 1840, of that Court, was set for hearing, and ordered, by consent, to be transmitted to the Supreme Court. The facts, as exhibited by the bill, answer and proofs, appeared to be these: Thomas P. Williams died about October, 1799, having first made a last will and testament, executed in' due form to pass real estate, which was admitted to probate in the County Court of Currituck, where he resided. Of this will he appointed…
1Opinion of the Court
Ruffin, Chief Justice.
After the judgment of this court in the action of ejectment between these parties, at June Term, 1837, the lessor of the plaintiff went into possession of the premises recovered. Proctor, the defendant at law, then filed this bill against Ferebee, and therein states the will of Thomas P. Williams, and all the other matters touching the titles of the respective parties to the land in controversy in that action, in substance as the same appear in the report of the suit at law in 2 Dev. & Bat. Rep. 439. But the bill .further states that Thomas C.- Ferebee,. the…
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