Everett v. . Newton
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil actioN, tried before Starbuolc, J., at Spring Term, 1895, of Swain Superior Court. Yerdict and judgment in favor of plaintiffs and appeal by defendant. The facts are sufficiently set out in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Avery, J.:
The land in controversy was granted by the State to the defendant, William Newton, in the year 1854, and he now contends that the title has never passed out of him. . The plaintiffs, who are (except the plaintiff administrator) heirs-at-law of Clark Whittier, claim through a deed which they allege was executed by the defendant to his father, Solomon Newton, and which was lost or destroyed, and through mesne conveyances to their ancestor Clark Whittier, who devised to them as tenants in common. There is no controversy as to the execution of the mesne conveyances. They likewise allege…
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