State v. Taylor

ARNOLD, Judge.

G.S. 146-79 provides in pertinent part:

In all controversies and suits for any land to which the State or any State agency or its assigns shall be a party, the title to such lands shall be taken and deemed to be in the State or the State agency or its assigns until the other party shall show that he has a good and valid title to such lands in himself.

Relying upon the presumption created by G.S. 146-79, the State presented the testimony of Robert T. Newcomb, a surveyor, who surveyed the land in question and described monuments he found and those he placed on the ground; he also…