Henry v. McCoy.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by John S. Henry against Winfield McCoy and others, heard by Judge M. H. Justice, at November Term, 1902, of the Superior Court of Macon County. From a judgment for the defendants, the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
*587Montgomery, J.
It appears from the complaint that on the 1st day of April, 1899, H. H. McCoy entered into the entry taker’s office of Macon County a tract of land; that he died in 1899, without having paid the State, and without having taken out a grant for the land; that within the time required by the statute, his sister, Pearlie McCoy, on the 31st of December, 1901, paid for the land entered by her brother, and procured a grant from the State to be made out in his name. It appears further in the complaint that the plaintiff, J. S. Henry, on the 8th of September, 1900, entered in the same…
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