Edwards v. . Moore
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Judicial Sales — Action to Recover Land — Evidence—Record. Civil actioN to recover land, tried before Avery, J., at. Spring Term, 1887, of Chowan Superior Court. The plaintiffs claimed title as heirs at law of T. J. Bland,, deceased, and the defendant claimed under a purchase from.
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Judicial Sales — Action to Recover Land — Evidence—Record. Civil actioN to recover land, tried before Avery, J., at. Spring Term, 1887, of Chowan Superior Court. The plaintiffs claimed title as heirs at law of T. J. Bland,, deceased, and the defendant claimed under a purchase from. R. B. Bland, administrator of T. J. Bland, at a sale made in pursuance of a decree in the case of R. B. Bland, administrator of T. J. Bland, deceased, against the heirs at law of bis intestate, made July 6th, 1869, to sell the land described In the complaint in this action to make assets to pay the debts of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Davis, J.,
(after stating the case). The lands of T. J. Bland, deceased, were sold in 1869, at a judicial sale, made under an order in a proceeding instituted by his administrator against his heirs at law to make assets to pay debts, and this action was commenced in 1885, more than fifteen years after, by the plaintiffs, who are some of the heirs at law of said T. J. Bland, to recover land so sold, and this right to recover is based upon the alleged ground that they were not parties to the proceeding under which the land was sold by the administrator.
They proposed to show in this action, by T.…
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