Young v. . Griffith
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was an action of EjbctMENT, brought by the lessor of the plaintiff against one David Wilson to Spring Term. 1861, of Yancey Superior Court, for certain lands situate in said county, from whence it was removed to the Superior Court of MadisoN county in which it was tried before Henry, J. at Spring Term, 1874. The case is brought t / this Court upon the appeal of the defendants, who are admitted to defend as landlords, upon the ground that his Honor o'n the trial below,…
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This was an action of EjbctMENT, brought by the lessor of the plaintiff against one David Wilson to Spring Term. 1861, of Yancey Superior Court, for certain lands situate in said county, from whence it was removed to the Superior Court of MadisoN county in which it was tried before Henry, J. at Spring Term, 1874. The case is brought t / this Court upon the appeal of the defendants, who are admitted to defend as landlords, upon the ground that his Honor o'n the trial below, excluded certain evidence offered by them, the same be objected to by the plaintiff. This Court in its decision,…
1Opinion of the CourtBynum, J.
This is an action of ejectment, under the old system, and is to be decided by the principles of law, unaffected by equity.
The defendants offered to prove, that at the time J. R. Love and the executors of Robert Love, conveyed the lands in dispute, to the lessor of the plaintiff, to-wit, on the 1st day of June, 1859, they, the defendants, were in the possession of the lands described in the declaration, claiming the same adversely, under their purchase at the sale by the Clerk and Master, on the 20th July, 1857. The evidence was objected to by the plaintiffs and excluded by the Court. There is…
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