Phillips v. Buchanan Lumber Co.

Clare, O. J.

Tbe complaint alleges that in 1853 S. P. Sher-rill, tbe ancestor of tbe plaintiffs, entered tbe land, bad it surveyed and paid tbe State part of tbe purchase money; that Sher-rill died, and in 1886 Sherrill’s son-in-law, one I. J. Slaughter, by fraud and a promise to bold tbe lands for tbe heirs of Sbei’rill, procured a certificate from tbe entry taker of Graham County, where tbe lands lay, that be was tbe assignee of Sherrill; that upon presentation of said certificate to tbe Secretary of State a grant was duly issued to said Slaughter, 13 October, 1886, and recorded in Graham…