Doe on Demise of Pritchard v. Turner
Supreme Court of North Carolina
From Pasquotank. Sprd.al verdiel in ejecivient. it was found by the Jury, that Tiiomas Symons was seised and possessed in fee* of the lands mentioned in the Plaintiff's declaration ; that the said Thomas died intestate in the year 1790, leaving a widow, Ann, and leaving, as his heir at law, an only child, Sarah; that Sarah intermarried with Joseph Jordan, and died intestate the 2d of March, 1308, leaving, as her heir at. law, an only child, Thomas ; that Thomas died an…
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From Pasquotank. Sprd.al verdiel in ejecivient. it was found by the Jury, that Tiiomas Symons was seised and possessed in fee* of the lands mentioned in the Plaintiff's declaration ; that the said Thomas died intestate in the year 1790, leaving a widow, Ann, and leaving, as his heir at law, an only child, Sarah; that Sarah intermarried with Joseph Jordan, and died intestate the 2d of March, 1308, leaving, as her heir at. law, an only child, Thomas ; that Thomas died an infant, intestate, and without issue, on the 12th of June, 1808 ; that Joseph Jordan, the father of Thomas, is also dead, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Taylor, Chief-Justice.
The controversy, in this case, arises between the paternal uncles on one side, and. a maternal aunt, of the half blood, on the other side» The land descended to Thomas Jordan, from his maternal grandfather, no portion of whose blood flows in the veins, either of the lessors of the Plaintiff, or the Defendant» The parties on both sides, are in the same de gree of consanguinity to the intestate; and hence, it ap-Peai's ^ie principle governing the decision, has been virtually settled in Ballard v. Hill, (3 Murph. 416.)
jn that case> the half blood of the maternal line were…
2Cited by1 opinion
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