East Carolina Lumber Company v. West

The parties here are designated as appellant and appellees. This is an action to remove an asserted cloud from appellant’s title to a tract of four acres in James City, Craven County. The cloud is claimed to originate in a deed made by T. D. Warren, Jr. as receiver of East Carolina Lumber Company. The pleadings in the present case make the validity of the deed from Warren, receiver, depend on the court’s jurisdiction over the defendant, a North Carolina corporation, when in 1929 Edna Basnight and others brought an action in the Superior Court of Craven County against East Carolina Lumber…