Willis v. Mann

BECTON, Judge.

Plaintiffs instituted this action to quiet title to certain land in Carteret County. Following a bench trial, the judge entered judgment in favor of defendants, finding they had adversely possessed the property under color of title for seven years. Plaintiffs appeal, and we affirm.

I

On 28 February 1739, 320 acres of land in Carteret County were conveyed to John Jarrett. The property was partitioned *452into four tracts in 1857; the first three of these are the subject of the present dispute. The tracts run, essentially, east and west and will be designated “the tracts” in this…