Campbell v. . Sigmon

Olaex, C.’ J.

Tbis was an action to recover a tract of 38 acres of land near Hickory which the plaintiff claimed.under a deed in the usual form and with the usual covenants, executed by Paul Sigmon 4 September, 1904, duly acknowledged before a justice of the peace, and recorded in the register’s office of Catawba, 13 September, 1904.

There seems to be no conflict in the evidence, which is substantially that the grantor, an old soldier of the war of 1861-65, was about 84 years old when he executed the deed, and that the defendant (who was one of several children) was living in the house with…