Peterson v. Sucro

H, II. WATKINS, District Judge.

This'action for the trial of title to land was instituted by appellee against appellants, who were therein and will be hereinafter respectively designated as plaintiff and defendants. The case was docketed at law and tried as an action in ejectment pursuant to the North Carolina practice. This is the second appeal. Upon the first trial defendants demanded that the case be submitted to a jury, but this was refused and the case referred to a special master, upon whose report the court rendered judgment in favor of the plaintiff. Appeal was taken upon several…