Court Opinion

ID: 3893181
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 09:24:01.363213+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:15:37.040778
License: Public Domain

to the jury, observed there appeared to be a difference of opinion with the Court as to the law. Agreeably to the principles of our government, it is the province of the jury to decide the law as well as the fact, and the jury will act accordingly in this case. The grant is not legal, there being no law to authorize the consolidation of warrants except one which applied to swamp lands in the lower part of North Carolina. It was decided in the case of Lytle's Lesseev. Barfield, that a warrant could not be divided. The grant is not valid, and the jury are the proper judges whether it is so or not. If in obtaining a grant, an individual does not pursue the requisites of the law, it would be useless.