Cook v. . Pittman
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN to recover possession of land, tried at Special April Term, 1906, of Mitchell Superior Court, before Cooke, J., and a jury. Verdict and judgment for plaintiffs. Defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
In deraigning ber title, tbe plaintiff offered a deed purporting to have been executed by Elisba Oarroway and wife to Isaac Cook, 20 July, 1878. This deed was offered as color of title. The following is the probate to the deed:
“I, Samuel W. Blalock, an acting justice of the peace in and for said county, do hereby certify that I have privately examined Elisha Oarroway, Nancy Oarroway, his wife, grantors of the above deed; and Nancy, his wife, doth state that she signed the same freely and voluntarily, without fear or compulsion of her said husband or any other person, and she doth still assent…
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