Hill v. Smith

BECTON, Judge.

The central issue presented on appeal is: whether the trial judge, based on the stipulated findings of fact, properly concluded that the defendant, Esther Smith, was willfully and unlawfully in possession of land owned by the plaintiffs, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert M. Hill. The scope of our review is to determine whether the findings of fact fairly and reasonably support the conclusions of law reached by the trial judge.

Ms. Smith’s main objection in her four assignments of error focuses on the trial judge’s conclusion that the Clerk of Superi- or Court of Guilford County had subject…