Cowies v. Lovin.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by Calvin J. Cowles against S. B. Lovin, heard by Judge W. A. Koine and a jury, at Fall Term, 1903, of the Superior Court of G-kahaM County. From a judgment for the defendant the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
This action was brought to recover possession of several tracts of land described in the complaint. The plaintiff, in support of his title and right to possession, introduced in evidence certain grants and mesne conveyances con--necting his title with those grants. There was evidence tending to show that the grants and deeds covered the locus in quo. The defendant resisted the plaintiff’s recovery upon the ground (1) that it had not been sufficiently shown that his paper title embraced the land in dispute, and (2) that the defendant and those under whom he claimed had been in adverse…
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