Smith v. . Fite
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a civil actiost for the recovery of land, tried before Gilmer, Judge, and a jury, at Fall Term, 1883, of G-astow Superior Court. There was a verdict and judgment for the defendant from which the plaintiff appealed. *
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The ease prepared on the appeal is so obscure in its statement, and the accompanying plat or map of the survey so deficient in explanation upon the evidence, that we may fail to understand the facts and the exceptions to the rulings intended to be reviewed, and in consequence be unable to reach a satisfactory solution of the controversy.
The plaintiff derived title to the territory circúmseribcd by the lines A, B, C, D, E, E, G, H, I, in the plat, under a deed executed in March, 1856, by one Hoffman to Eliza Smith, his grandmother, and successive descents to his father and to himself,…
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