DOCKERY v. DOCKERY

No. 17.

102 S.E.2d 143 (1958)

247 N.C. 753

Rollin DOCKERY and wife, Cora Dockery, v. Oliver DOCKERY and wife, Bessie Dockery.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

February 26, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. O. Christopher and McKeever & Edwards, Murphy, for plaintiff appellants.

C. E. Hyde, Murphy, for defendant appellees.


PER CURIAM.

This is an action of trespass to try title. By amendments to the pleadings, plaintiffs' ownership was made to depend on possession without color for the twenty-year statutory period, and the area in dispute was reduced to approximately one-eighth of an acre in the form of a triangle, one side being 23 feet and another 566 feet. Plaintiffs' evidence tended to establish their possession from 1923 to 1957. Defendants' evidence negatived plaintiffs' asserted...

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