EVERETT v. SANDERSON

No. 391.

78 S.E.2d 408 (1953)

238 N.C. 564

EVERETT et al. v. SANDERSON et ux.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 11, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Summersill & Summersill, Jacksonville, and Moore & Corbett, Burgaw, for plaintiffs, appellees.

Wyatt E. Blake, Burgaw, for defendants, appellants.


ERVIN, Justice.

The defendants assert primarily that the evidence of the plaintiffs does not suffice to show adverse possession for twenty years within the purview of G.S. § 1-40, and that the action ought to have been involuntarily nonsuited on that ground in the trial court.

When the evidence is interpreted in the light most favorable to the plaintiffs, it discloses these facts:

1. On January 12, 1948, L. W. Everett executed a deed sufficient...

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