Guilford v. . Porter

Civil action. From a judgment sustaining motion to nonsuit, the plaintiff appealed. This is stated to be an action to remove a cloud from the plaintiff's title to part of the courthouse square in Guilford County, but as the alleged cloud was placed thereon by the act of plaintiff, we prefer to treat it as a proceeding under section 1589, Revisal, to determine the title to the property described in the complaint growing out of the adverse claims of the defendants.

The courthouse of Guilford County was burned in 1872, and by virtue of chapter 16, Laws 1872, the commissioners proceeded to acquire…