SCOTT v. LEWIS

No. 105.

98 S.E.2d 294 (1957)

246 N.C. 298

Elijah SCOTT, George Scott, Janie Bryant and Bertha Scott, v. Meriweather LEWIS and J. T. Taylor.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 22, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. T. Grantham, Cecil D. May, Lee & Hancock, New Bern, for plaintiffs, appellants.

Ward & Tucker, R. E. Whitehurst, New Bern, for defendants, appellees.


WINBORNE, Chief Justice.

Appellants in brief filed here on this appeal state that "at the trial of the present case in the Superior Court the plaintiffs did not rely on any paper title, but sought to show that they, and their tenants in common, the children and grandchildren of Stephen and Sophia Scott, had remained in open, notorious and continuous adverse possession under known and visible lines and boundaries since 1907 despite the outcome of the earlier case....

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