Pardue v. Brinegar

ELMORE, Judge.

BACKGROUND

Plaintiff Elizabeth Elaine Pardue owns a tract of land in Wilkes County that adjoins and lies southwest of a tract owned by defendants Michael Brinegar, April Brinegar, and Frances Brinegar (the Brinegars). Pardue commenced a quiet title action on 31 May 2007 in order to determine the true boundary line between Pardue’s and the Brinegars’ tracts. Both parties claimed ownership of a 0.79 acre disputed zone.

Pardue’s chain of title described the boundary with the Brinegars’ tract as:

BEGINNING on a white oak in the old S.P. Smith line and runs up the branch, South 11…