EX PARTE JOHNSON

No. 704SC368.

176 S.E.2d 31 (1970)

9 N.C. App. 102

Ex parte B. D. JOHNSON et al.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

August 5, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wheatly & Mason, Beaufort, and W. F. Simpson, Pink Hill, for petitioner-appellees, Bruce Carlton, Executor of Ophelia J. Carlton, Bruce Carlton, individually, Nash Johnson, Mary Sue Johnson, William T. Blanchard, and Margaret E. Cooper.

Wells, Blossom & Burrows, Wallace, Venters & Dotson, Carl Venters, Jacksonville, and W. A. Johnson, Lillington, for respondent appellants, W. Victor Venters and wife, Katherine C. Venters, Mae J. Sorrell, Cora Jane J. Bostic and husband, Raeford Bostic, Carson Johnson, Fletcher Johnson, and Dorothy J. Lane and husband, Lester Lane.


BRITT, Judge.

This case deals with a complex matter which has dragged on for 22 years. The record and exhibits total some 538 pages. Much of the factual material and many of the contentions placed before the court are extraneous to the issues which we now perceive to be dispositive.

In our view, several salient points both chart the course of this appeal and determine the outcome: (1) The clerk had jurisdiction over the parties, lands and timber encompassed...

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