Rexford v. Brunswick-Balke-Coldender Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of North Carolina, at Asheville. Action by C. H. Rexford against the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals. This action was brought originally in the superior court of Swain county, N. C., to the July term, 1908, of said court.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of North Carolina, at Asheville. Action by C. H. Rexford against the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals. This action was brought originally in the superior court of Swain county, N. C., to the July term, 1908, of said court. Upon due proceedings had, the case was removed for trial to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of North Carolina, at Asheville. In his complaint filed in the state court the plaintiff seeks to have declared null and void…
1Opinion of the CourtBoyd, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). There are many assignments of error on the part of the appellant set out in the record, but the whole case as presented to us -in our opinion turns \ upon the effect to be given to the three deeds referred to in the decree, one dated August 3, 1883, and the other two December 27, 1884, in which J. W. Terrell, as commissioner appointed by the probate court of Jackson county, conveyed to J. F. Loomis and Xenophon Wheeler certain trees therein described upon the lands of William H. Thomas, Sr., in the counties of Graham.and Swain, N. C. The timber rights…
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