Thompson v. Green River Power Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from Councill, J., at the May Term, 1910, of HeN-DERSON. Tbis action was brought under section 1589, Revisal, to remove a cloud from the title of plaintiff, asserted by defendants.
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Appeal from Councill, J., at the May Term, 1910, of HeN-DERSON. Tbis action was brought under section 1589, Revisal, to remove a cloud from the title of plaintiff, asserted by defendants. The defendants, admitting the legal title to be in the plaintiffs, assert that they have the equitable title under a contract to convey made by the attorney in fact of the plaintiffs, to wit, one S. B. Justice, said contract being dated 27 March, 1900, and that on 2 April, 1900, they paid the full -purchase price, $100, for the land. It was admitted that a deed dated 12 October, 1905, was tendered defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtManning, J.
The decision of this case and the determination of the rights of the parties depend upon the proper construction of certain deeds of record in tbe county in wbicb tbe land involved is situate, and wbicb were offered in evidence at tbe trial.
On 8 March, 1830, Isaac Bronson and G-oold Hoyt, of tbe city of New York, tben being owners of large bodies of land (locally known, it seems, as speculation lands) in Mecklenburg, Eutberford (and in that area now Henderson), and Buncombe counties, in this State, conveyed the same to James Hoyt, John N. Ward, and William G. Ward, as trustees. The trusts…
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