Brothers v. Howard

MARTIN (Harry C.), Judge.

The trial court erred in allowing defendants’ motion for directed verdict at the close of plaintiffs’ evidence on plaintiffs’ cause of action to quiet title.

First, the Real Property Marketable Title Act provides that the establishment of a marketable record title in any person pursuant to the statute shall be prima facie evidence that such person owns title to the real property described in his record chain of title. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 47B-2(d) (Supp. 1981). Plaintiffs have established a marketable record title to the land in dispute by the introduction of the deed…