Pitman v. . Hunt

Stacy, C. J..

There is evidence on behalf of plaintiffs tending to show that their ancestor and predecessor in title, H. E. Pitman, took a deed for the locus in quo on 22 June, 1878, and that the same was duly registered 10 November, 1879. (The description may need to be aided by parol, but this the plaintiffs offered to do. Bissette v. Strickland, 191 N. C., 260, 131 S. E., 655.) Thereafter, the said H. E. Pitman placed one Berry Oxendine in possession of the land as his tenant, and plaintiffs offered to show that the said Berry Oxendine remained in possession of said property, as tenant of…