Den Ex Dem. Webb v. Hall
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was an action of ejectment, brought by the lessor of the plaintiff, to recover the possession of a small parcel of land, included between the dotted lines B. K. P. C., as represented in the annexed diagram. On the trial at Stokes, on the last Circuit, before his Honor Judge Norwood, the lessor of the plaintiff made’ out his case by producing a grant from the state bearing date in 1832, covering the land in dispute; and proving the defendant in possession.
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This was an action of ejectment, brought by the lessor of the plaintiff, to recover the possession of a small parcel of land, included between the dotted lines B. K. P. C., as represented in the annexed diagram. On the trial at Stokes, on the last Circuit, before his Honor Judge Norwood, the lessor of the plaintiff made’ out his case by producing a grant from the state bearing date in 1832, covering the land in dispute; and proving the defendant in possession. The defendant set up title under a grant from the state to one David Lawson, dated in 1780; and showed a regular chain of conveyances…
1Opinion of the Court
Ruffin, Chief Justice.
— We are of opinion that the survey or map of 1825 was proper evidence, upon the ground that it was made at the instance of Beazley, who was then the owner of the estate now claimed by the lessor of the plaintiff. The Lawson tract and the Davidson tract began at the same corner on the Virginia line; and the white oak, it seems from the original field book, was the common terminus of the first line of both tracts. Beazley owned the Davidson tract, and also the tract called the Burge Survey; and he claimed, according to the map, that the corner white oak of the Davidson…
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