JOHNSON v. McLAMB

No. 528.

101 S.E.2d 311 (1958)

247 N.C. 534

Hampton JOHNSON and wife, Marie Johnson, v. George E. McLAMB and wife et al.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

January 10, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

N. H. McGeachy, Jr., Willis D. Brown, Fayetteville, and I. R. Williams, Dunn, for appellants.

J. R. Barefoot, Benson, for appellees.


JOHNSON, Justice.

At the time of the tax foreclosure, Mary McLamb owned only a one-ninth undivided interest in the lot. She alone was joined as a defendant. The single question here presented is whether the tax foreclosure deed is color of title against the cotenants who were not parties to the foreclosure.

The deed meets all the essential requirements prescribed by the general rules definitive of colorable title. Says Walker, J., in Burns v. Stewart, 162...

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