Sidbury v. Jacobs

McGEE, Judge.

Plaintiffs filed an action in January 2001 to remove a cloudupon their title under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-10. Plaintiffs claim ownership of five acres of land in Pender County through a series of deeds dating back to 1944. Defendants filed a counterclaim alleging that they owned eighteen acres, including the five acres claimed by plaintiffs, through a chain of title dating back to 1901, or alternatively, by adverse possession.

Plaintiffs' series of deeds describe their five acres of real property as:

BEGINNING at a stake in the run of Mike's Branch and running thence with the old…