Simmons v. . Hassell

The question determining the case, and upon which its decision turned in the Superior and in this Court, was as to the validity of a certain deed, a necessary link in the defendants' title, made by a former Clerk and Master in Equity of Tyrrell County, to T. L. Hassell the defendant, who had been by a decree of the Court subrogated to the rights of the purchaser of the land (the same in controversy in this action) at the sale of the Clerk and Master. Some of the records in the Equity office of Tyrrell County having been destroyed during the war, evidence of the proceedings relating to a sale…