BOONE v. PRITCHETT

No. 163.

130 S.E.2d 288 (1963)

259 N.C. 226

Hazel BOONE, Judy Carter, Maggie Parker, Flossie Parker, Eulah Phillips, Eddie Walton, Pearlie Watson, Heirs at Law of the Estate of Dempsey Walton, Appellants, v. J. A. PRITCHETT, Commissioner, B. U. Griffin and Charles Griffin, Sons and Heirs at Law of C. B. Griffin and L. H. Griffin, L. S. Mizelle, Guardian Ad Litem, Appellees.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 10, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Conrad O. Pearson, W. G. Pearson, II, and F. B. McKissick, Durham, for plaintiff appellants.

Pritchett & Cooke, Windsor, for defendant appellees.


SHARP, Justice.

Plaintiffs claim the thirty acres, described in paragraph ten of the complaint as the "Julia Walton Home Place," located in Woodville Township, Bertie County, North Carolina, as heirs of Dempsey Walton. The source of their alleged claim is the deed dated November 6, 1878, by which Hezekiah Griffin purported to convey fifty-six acres of land, more or less, to Dempsey Walton. The description in that instrument...

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