Beal v. Dellinger

ARNOLD, Judge.

Respondents contend that this proceeding should have been dismissed for lack of jurisdiction over the subject matter. They rely on Pruden v. Keemer, 262 N.C. 212, 136 S.E. 2d 604 (1964), but that case is not on point. In Pruden, the Court found a lack of subject matter jurisdiction because the petition had failed to allege what boundary line was in dispute, or in fact that any boundary line was in dispute. There the petitioners merely had set out what they believed to be the true location of the boundary of their lands and liad alleged that respondents’ lands would be “affected”…