Jones v. . Coffey’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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1. ““The plaintiffs are the heirs at law of John T. Jones and Walter L. Jones, who died intestate long before this action began, and, as the plaintiffs allege, seised of the land described in the complaint, which in that case descended to them as such heirs. The defendants allege in their answer that the land in question belonged to Edmund P. Jones, who was the ancestor of the plaintiffs, and who died in 1878, leaving a will, which was duly proven; that afterwards the First National Bank of Charlotte and others brought action to the fall term 1897 of the superior court of Caldwell county against the executor of the will mentioned and the present defendants; that in the course of that action a receiver was appointed, and the land in question was sold under a proper decree made therein; that at that sale the defendants became the purchasers of the land, paid the purchase money therefor, the sale was duly confirmed, and the receiver, under the direction of the court, made a proper deed to them, under which they claim title to the land. On the trial in this action, a question arose as to whether the land in controversy was a part of the land sold as above stated and embraced by the decree and deed under which the defendants claim. It was identified as a part of the land so sold; but the plaintiffs contended that, if it was, it was so embraced by inadvertence, mistake, and misapprehension; that, in fact, it belonged to them as heirs at law of their brothers as first above stated, who ”

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