DAY v. GODWIN

No. 99.

128 S.E.2d 814 (1963)

258 N.C. 465

Nere E. DAY v. E. P. GODWIN and J. W. Blanchard. Nere E. DAY v. INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY. Nere E. DAY v. J. W. BLANCHARD and E. P. Godwin.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

January 11, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ellis, Godwin & Hooper, Jacksonville, Poisson, Marshall, Barnhill & Williams, Wilmington, Hamilton, Hamilton & Phillips, Morehead City, and Paul G. Sylvester, Jacksonville, for plaintiff, appellant.

Wyatt E. Blake, Burgaw, E. E. Butler, Clinton, and C. R. Wheatly, Jr., Beaufort, for defendants, appellees.


HIGGINS, Justice.

The consolidated judgment dismissed the plaintiff's three actions because of his failure to prove title to any of the lands described in his pleadings. In actions involving land, a denial places upon the claimant the burden of establishing his title by one of the methods recognized by law. Mobley v. Griffin, 104 N.C. 112, 10 S.E. 142; West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co. v. Richmond Cedar Works, ...

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