Dugger v. . McKesson
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ACTION for the recovery of land, begun in Mitchell County, and removed to the Superior Court of Catawba, where it was tried before MacRae, J, at Fall Term, 1888. The verdict and judgment were for the defendants and the plaintiffs appealed. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The plaintiffs’ claim of title to the land sued for, and described in the complaint, is derived under a grant of six hundred and forty acres, made, on February 2d, 1881, to J. F. Amos, and a deed from the latter, and his wife, executed, on the 30th day of the next month, to the plaintiffs. The defendants, all of whom originally served with process, were acting by authority of John E. Brown, subsequently admitted to defend as landlord, and claiming to be the owner, concede that they are in the occupation of the same tract, and aver that the title thereto was not in the State when the grant…
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