Morehead v. Hall.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by John L. Morebead and others, against David B. Hall and others, heard by Judge George H. Brown, at September Term, 1902, of the Superior Court of Carteret County. From a judgment for the defendants, the plaintiffs appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
When this action was commenced on the fourth of September, 1897, the plaintiffs’ sole claim to the land in dispute was through an unregistered grant from the State to John Benthall, dated October 30, 1765. At the time of the trial of the action, Fall term, 1902, of the Superior Court of Carteret County, the plaintiffs offered that grant, which had been registered since the commencement of the action, to-wit, on the 24th day of October, 1899, in 'evidence in support of their title. The evidence was rejected upon the objection of the defendant, and an exception entered by the plaintiffs. The…
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