Bowser v. Wescott
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This is a proceeding under tbe entry laws (Revisa!, sec. 1109, et seq.), tried before bis Honor, W. B. Allen, J., at Spring Term, 1907, of Dare. Superior Court. Erom tbe judgment rendered the protestants, Bowser and Shannon, appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtBnowN, J.
It is contended by tbe learned'counsel for the enterer that there are admissions in the record that the prot-*57cstants have no title to the land entered, and that, under the ruling in Johnson v. Wescott, 139 N. C., 29, the protest should be dismissed and the enterer permitted to take out his grant. We fail to find any such admission in the record. It is admitted that the protestants on the trial failed to connect themselves by evidence with the possession of Ben Ether-idge, Barbara Frost or Ned Bowser, but that is far from being an admission of record that protestants have no title or…
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