Exum v. . Baker
Supreme Court of North Carolina
PROCEEDING heard before Brown, J., at February Term, 1894, of Greene Superior Court. This is an application by the plaintiff for a writ of assistance.’ The plaintiff was the purchaser of certain lands described in the complaint (filed in the original action for foreclosure, etc.). The defendant appealed from the judgment below.
1Opinion of the Court
Aveky, J.:
It is found as a fact by the Court below, upon petition for a writ of assistance and the answer thereto with exhibits, that the defendant Jasper Baker bought the tract of land in controversy on the 5th of December, 1894, when sold for taxes due for the year 1886 by Sugg, tax collector, acting under the law of 1891, ch. 391, and that on failure of the owner to redeem, he took title for said land from said tax collector on December 6, 1893, “ entered and acquired possession under the same, and has lived thereon ever since.” The question of the surrender of possession by the defendant…
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