Spivey v. . Rose
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil aotioN, to recover land, tried at March Term, 1896, of JohNstoN Superior Court, before Mclver, J., and a jury. The facts appear in the opinion of the court. There was a verdict, followed by judgment for the defendants, and plaintiffs appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
MoNtgomeiiy, J.:
The plaintiff introduced, without objection, a deed for the land executed on the 22d of October, 1852, by Windsor Watkins to herself. The defendants offered in evidence a deed covering the same land, which purported to have been made by the plaintiff, to Incil Watkins on the 1st of June, 1867, and which had been admitted to probate on January 7, 1868, and registered on August 21, 1883. The plaintiff objected to the admission of this deed in evidence, on the ground that the probate appeared to have been taken before B. R. Hinnant, chairman of the Court of Pleas and Quarter…
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