Peel v. Moore

The sufficiency of a deed to convey title can be adjudicated by the submission of a controversy without action under G.S. 1-250. Griffin v. Springer, ante, 95, 92 S.E. 2d 682.

This Court said in Realty Corp. v. Koon, 216 N.C. 295, 4 S.E. 2d 850: “All persons having an interest in the controversy must be parties, to the end that they may be concluded by the judgment, and the controversy be finally adjudicated as in the case of an action instituted in the usual way. McKethan v. Ray, 71 N.C. 165.”

Alton Stallings never married, and at his death his nearest collateral relatives capable of…