JOHNSON v. DAUGHETY

No. 359.

155 S.E.2d 205 (1967)

270 N.C. 762

R. E. L. JOHNSON, Sr. and wife, Adell G. Johnson v. J. Odell DAUGHETY and wife, Lucy Hill Daughety, Sudie Kilpatrick, and W. O. McGibony, Trustee for Federal Land Bank of Columbia.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 20, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Whitaker, Jeffress & Morris and Aycock, LaRoque, Allen, Cheek & Hines, Kingston, for plaintiff appellants.

C. E. Gerrans and Thomas J. White, Kingston, for defendant appellees.


BOBBITT, Justice.

"Questions of disputed boundaries may arise and be determined in various kinds of actions at law, such as an action of, or in the nature of, ejectment, where title is in dispute, or trespass, where there has been no dispossession of the plaintiff. * * Apart from statute, courts of equity exercise jurisdiction to settle disputed boundaries only where there is some recognized ground for the interposition of equity and there is no adequate remedy at...

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