Plummer v. . Baskerville
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a bill in Equity, filed in Warren Court of Equity, at Fall Term, 1831. The defendants answered, replication was taken to the answer, and the cause, having been set for hearing at Term, of that Court, was, by consent, removed to'the Supreme Court. The pleadings and facts proved are fully set forth in the opinion as delivered by the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Ruffin, Chief Justice.
This bill was filed September 29th, 1831, and states, that in December, 1796, two grants were issued by this State to John Willis, late of Warren county, each for 2,500 acre's of land, situate in the Western District, now the State of Tennessee, on the fork of Deer River, and described by metes and bounds in the bill; and that Willis, for a valuable consideration, sold both of the tracts to William Falkener the elder, 1 ate of Warrenton, and, as the plaintiffs believe, executed a regular conveyance therefor; that, never having seen the deed nor any copy thereof, the…
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