DAVIE v. BRIGGS


97 U.S. 628 (____)

DAVIE v. BRIGGS.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cause was argued by Mr. James Lowndes and Mr. Edward McCrady, Jr., for the appellants, and by Mr. Samuel F. Phillips for the appellees.


MR. JUSTICE HARLAN, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellants, as the heirs-at-law of Allen Jones Davie, deceased, assert an interest in the proceeds of a sale which took place in June, 1853, of a tract of land in Guilford County, North Carolina, known many years ago as the McCulloch gold-mine.

Whether the defence, so far as it rests upon the Statute of Limitations of North Carolina, can be sustained, depends upon the evidence...

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