Evans v. Lipscomb

Hines, Justice.

This is an equitable action seeking to reform a 1986 agreement establishing a boundary line on property owned for thirty-seven years *768by two tenants in common, both of whom are now deceased. We granted Melo Evans’ application for interlocutory appeal to determine whether the superior court erred in holding that Bob Lipscomb’s action for reformation was not barred, as a matter of law, by the applicable statute of limitation. We reverse.

On October 8, 1949, Glenn Lipscomb and Herbert Childers purchased a parcel of land in Cherokee County, known as the Cagel Farm, as tenants in…