FOREMAN v. SHOLL

No. 86A94.

453 S.E.2d 162 (1995)

339 N.C. 593

Kenneth J. FOREMAN, Jr., and wife, Mary Frances O. Foreman, Trustees under Declaration Of Trust Dated August 6, 1981 v. S.H. SHOLL, M.D., Edward Henry Sholl, Eleanor B. Deex, George A. McElveen, Jr., B.G. North, B.G. Worth, Mrs. Bernard Germann, B.O. Townsend, Mrs. Ike C. Lowe, Mrs. Paul Mooney, W.T. Denman, III, Margaret G. Denman, Janie C. Williamson, El Dora Williamson, Oehlese Williamson, James Williamson, James L. Williamson, Jr., John Gatling, Mrs. W.J. Johnson, Mrs. Ethel Highsmith, Mrs. Annie Brooks, Garnett T. Brooks, Mrs. A.H. McCormick, James A. McCormick, Dorothy Harlan McMillan, Eugene Maxton Harlan, William Wade Harlan, John Burke Harlan, Virginia Auten Dixon, F.I. Stone, Anne Stone Barnette, T.R. Sampson, Isabel H. Sampson, J.M. Davis, Leo W. Heartt, Joseph Brown, Ticer Brown, Richard B. Briggs, Mrs. Ella R. Sampson, James A. Blue, Mrs. Bonnie Blue Covell, E.B. McNeil, J.L. McNeill Trust, J.J. McNeill, Jr., Geo. S. Cromartin, Arthu[r] S. Harris, Ann Turner Cromartie, R.H. Cohn, Mary N. Howerton, J.R. Howerton, Philip T. Howerton, M.D., J.A. McLaughlin, Wayne M. Cleghern, Donald W. Wilson, Chas. A. Dixon, C.H. Morrow (or Marrow), R.B. Slavin, J. David Winger, Mrs. Rosa H. Greer, Mrs. Eva M. Humphreys, J.F. Robertson, Billy Shaw Howell, Jr., Mrs. E.G. Hutchinson, Dr. Charles E. Walker, Clara H. Carswell Heirs, J.H. Howell, E.Y. Webb, R.G. Vaughn, Cynthia Vaughn Price, John Trimble, Mattie C. Spencer, Mrs. Lynwood G. Craig, C.C. Sprinkle, Rev. J.C. Sims, H.J. Watrons, Jim Watrons, J.E. Groves, F.J. Gowdey (or Gowdy), Hodges C. Gowdey, Slocum G. Kendall (or Frances Slocum Gowdey), G.D. Clifford, Mary E. Lazenby, Thos. H. Somerville, James Denwiddie (or Deneviddie Estate,) Miss Linda (or Suida) H. Chaney, A.S. de Vlaning, Mrs. Thomas C. Johnson, R.E. Cabell, T.L. Trawick, C.B. Mahan, Elizabeth Chaffin, Miss Fannie R. Williams, Wm. C. Buchanan, Adair H. Sanders, Kathleen Adair Brown, Montreat Concrete and Building Company, Inc., C.H. Robinson & Company, Montreat-Anderson College, Inc., and Mountain Retreat Association, Inc.: to each of the above, if living; if deceased, to their heirs, devisees, successors, transferees, legal representatives or assigns; and to the spouse of each, if any; and to the beneficiaries or trustees of each, if any; and to all other persons, firms, corporations, estates or trusts who now have or claim, or may hereafter claim, any right, title or interest or estate in and to the property described herein, whether sane or insane, adult or minor, in esse or not in esse or en ventre sa mere, resident or nonresident of the State of North Carolina, live corporation or dissolved corporation.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

February 10, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kelly & Rowe, P.A. by E. Glenn Kelly, Asheville, for plaintiffs-appellants.

McGuire, Wood & Bissette, P.A. by Grant B. Osborne, Asheville, for defendants-appellees.

Todd, Hefferon and Hefferon by Thomas J. Hefferon, on behalf of George W. McCormick, Charlotte, amicus curiae.


PER CURIAM.

On 25 May 1990, plaintiffs filed suit in Superior Court, Buncombe County, seeking to quiet title to fifty-nine tracts of land based upon their adverse possession of the land under color of title for more than seven years, pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 1-38 (1983). The trial court granted defendants' motion for summary judgment concluding, inter alia, that "in accordance with [section] 1-38," and "in view of the description in the deed upon which plaintiffs...

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