Ellis v. Poe

JOHNSON, Judge.

The following undisputed facts are gleaned from the petition, response, affidavits, interrogatories, request for admissions and exhibits:

On 5 September 1940, Burén Ellis, Sr. died intestate, survived by eight children, including petitioner Ludie E. Ellis and Napoleon Ellis. At the time of his death, Burén Ellis, Sr. owned a seventy-five acre tract of land located in Mangum Township, Durham County, North Carolina. This tract of land allegedly had been conveyed by deed to Napoleon Ellis by Burén Ellis, Sr. but no deed was ever recorded in the Durham County Registry and no such…