HILL v. SMITH

No. 8018DC719.

277 S.E.2d 542 (1981)

Herbert McKinley HILL and wife, Edna Byrd Hill, Plaintiffs and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellees, v. Esther SMITH, Defendant-Appellant, v. William H. ANDERSON and wife Margarita H. Anderson, Third-Party Defendants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

May 5, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O'Connor, Speckhard & Speckhard by Donald K. Speckhard, Greensboro, for defendant-appellant.

Badgett, Calaway, Phillips, Davis, Stephens, Peed & Brown by Chester C. Davis, Winston-Salem, for plaintiff-appellee.


BECTON, Judge.

The central issue presented on appeal is: whether the trial judge, based on the stipulated findings of fact, properly concluded that the defendant, Esther Smith, was willfully and unlawfully in possession of land owned by the plaintiffs, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert M. Hill. The scope of our review is to determine whether the findings of fact fairly and reasonably support the conclusions of law reached by the trial judge.

Ms. Smith's main objection...

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