Lewis v. Covington
Supreme Court of North Carolina
O'ivii, AotioNS (two cases, names of parties reversed, consolidated and tried as one), in ejectment, heard before Allen, Jon exceptions to report of referees. ’The plaintiffs, Abram Lewis and James Overby, procured froan the Htate a grant for the land described in the complaint on. December 31, 1888. This suit was commenced in 189.1. The? defendants, J. It. (loving-ton and jVI.
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O'ivii, AotioNS (two cases, names of parties reversed, consolidated and tried as one), in ejectment, heard before Allen, Jon exceptions to report of referees. ’The plaintiffs, Abram Lewis and James Overby, procured froan the Htate a grant for the land described in the complaint on. December 31, 1888. This suit was commenced in 189.1. The? defendants, J. It. (loving-ton and jVI. E. Overby, relied upon possession under color of title of various deeds fox more than twenty-one years before the date of plaintiffs’ grant. The referees found as matter of fact that the defendants’ evidence did not…
1Opinion of the CourtFurches, J.
There were two actions for the same land in which the names of the parties are reversed. These actions were properly consolidated by order of court, tried together in the court below, and argued together in this Court; and in this opinion we shall treat the case as Lewis v. Overby, this being the first, action in point of time. It is then an action of ejectment for possession of land, and after the pleadings were filed by consent of parties, it was referred to- J. Y. Philip and N. D. Reid, who- took evidence, and in October, 1897, filed their report. This report finds the facts which they…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Ruffin v. . OverbySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1890
- Worth v. . SimmonsSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1897
- Walden v. . RaySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1897
- Baker v. . BelvinSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1898
3Cited by1 opinion
- Lewis v. Covington.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1902