Richmond Cedar Works v. Pinnix
District Court, E.D. North Carolina
In Equity. Suit by the Richmond, Cedar Works against one Pinnix and others. Bill in equity, brought by plaintiff, to remove cloud from and quiet title.
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In Equity. Suit by the Richmond, Cedar Works against one Pinnix and others. Bill in equity, brought by plaintiff, to remove cloud from and quiet title. The land in controversy is situate in the Eastern district of North Carolina, being a portion-pf the Dismal Swamp, of the value of $60,000. Plaintiff alleges that it is the owner and in possession of the locus in quo; that defendants assert an adverse interest in said land, under deeds and other paper writings, which are a cloud upon its title. Plaintiff is a Virginia corporation ; defendants, Pinnix and Ferrebee, are citizens and residents of…
1Opinion of the CourtConnor, District Judge
[1] (after stating the facts as above). Defendants’ first exception is directed to the admission in evidence of a certified copy of a deed from John R. White and his wife to George T. Wallace, dated April 10, 1857; registered in Rook C. C., page 542, Camden county, January 24, 1871. There is, upon the certified copy, a certificate of acknowledgment by the grantor and his wife, purporting to have been made by W. J. Baker, a commissioner of affidavits, in Virginia, for North Carolina, dated April 11, 1857. There is, on the copy of the deed, no order of registration, by the court of pleas and…
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