McNamee v. . Alexander
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was an appeal from a judgment dissolving a n straining order, granted at Chambers at Oxford on 27th of June, T891, by Winston, J. The plaintiff set forth in his complaint that the defendant SB.
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This was an appeal from a judgment dissolving a n straining order, granted at Chambers at Oxford on 27th of June, T891, by Winston, J. The plaintiff set forth in his complaint that the defendant SB. J. Alexander had entered and caused to be surveyed a ■portion of the bed of the French Broad river, in Buncombe County, for all of which land the plaintiff had title through mesne conveyances connecting him with grants from the State, some of which crossed the river so-as to include the whole bed, and others of which extended to the middle of the stream from each side. The plaintiff alleged that…
1Opinion of the CourtAvery, J.
after stating the facts, proceeded: If the plaintiff, by means of some grants from theState covering the whole bed of the French Broad river by crossing the stream, and others extending ad filum aquae from each side, together with mesne conveyances connecting him with all of such grants, could, as he alleges, show title to the whole of the bed of said river from Smith’s bridge to the mouth of Avery’s creek, being the portion of the river-bed covered by the entries and surveys of the defendant Alexander, and for which, the latter is asking that grants be issued, it would follow, according to…
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