Wood v. . Lewey
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by plaintiff from ~W. J. Adams, J., at tbe April Term, 1910, of Guilford. Tbe facts are sufficiently stated in tbe opinion of tbe Court.
1Opinion of the CourtClark, C. J.
Rankin Lewey died about 1889, leaving a widow and five children, and a tract of 55 acres of land. In 1904 the defendant County Board of Education bought 3 1-5 acres of said tract, and erected a $4,000 school thereon. It received a deed from all the heirs at law, except the oldest daughter, Alvatine, who disappeared soon after her father’s death, and whose whereabouts remained unknown until 1908, when the plaintiff, learning that she was in New Jersey, went to see her and obtained her conveyance for her undivided interest in said 55-acre tract, and then called upon the defendant county board…
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