Ellis v. Vespoint

GREENE, Judge.

The defendant appeals from a judgment entered 2 May 1990 in which the trial court ordered that title to certain real property be vested in the plaintiffs.

Prior to the introduction of any evidence, the parties stipulated that witnesses at trial were prohibited from testifying as to statements made by Queen Ellis (Ellis). The parties complied with this stipulation. Viewed in the light most favorable to the plaintiffs, the evidence tends to show the following: In January of 1962, Ellis owned approximately forty acres of land in Mecklenburg County. Ellis was the plaintiffs’ and…