Gudger v. . Hensley
Supreme Court of North Carolina
•Civil .Action to recover possession of Land, tried at Fall Term, 18.79, of Yancey Superior Court, before Schenck, J. 'Verdict and judgment for plaintiff, appeal by defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
•Smith,'0. J.
The plaintiff derives title to the land described in the complaint under a grant from the state in 1796, to John Gray Blount, and successive conveyances through intermediate parties to himself. The defendant relies on seven years’ adverse possession, by those from whom .he claims, of the part occupied by him with color of title, .and the .insufficiency of the grant to Blount to pass the ■estate in the disputed lands.
In making out the defence, the defendant showed a grant .issued in 1798 to Abraham Turner, and, without connection ■with the grantee, a series of deeds commencing…
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