Harris-Woodbury Lumber Co. v. Coffin
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western North Carolina
■ In Equity. Suit by the Harris-Woodbury Lumber Company against E. G. Coffin and D. Samuel White. On exceptions to_ report of special master. Exceptions overruled, and decree for complainant.
1Opinion of the Court
PRITCHARD, Circuit Judge.
This is a bill in equity filed by the complainant for the purpose of removing a cloud upon its title. The complainant alleges that it is the owner in fee and in actual possession of a tract of mountain land containing 78,000 acres, and deraigns its title, showing grant from the state and various mesne conveyances down to a deed to the Foreign Hardwood Log Company in 1894, and then deed from the said company to the Tuckaseigee Timber Company in 1895, and deed from the Tuckaseigee Timber Company to the Whittier Lumber Company, a New Jersey corporation, in 1896, and deed…
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