Ferguson v. Babcock Lumber & Land Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of North Carolina, at Asheville; James E. Boyd, Judge. Bill to quiet title by the Babcock Dumber & Band Company against J. W. Ferguson and J. C. Blanchard. From a decree for complainant (243 Fed. 623), defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
WOODS, Circuit Judge.
The Babcock Dumber & Band Company filed its bill on January 20, 1917, in the District Court for the Western District of North Carolina to quiet its title to a tract of land on Slick Rock creek in that state against the claims of the defendants, J. W. Ferguson and J. C. Blanchard. The defendants answered, setting up title in themselves. The District Court held that the complainant had *707shown good title and decreed accordingly. The appeal mainly depends on the question whether a decree made in 1896 by the United States Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee in…
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