Carolina Power & Light Co. v. Waters

Defendant’s denial of plaintiff’s title placed the burden of establishing that fact on plaintiff. An approved method of proving title is to’ show the parties claim under -a common source and plaintiff has the older and superior title from that source. Mobley v. Griffin, 104 N.C. 112; Taylor v. Scott, 255 N.C. 484, 122 S.E. 2d 57; Tripp v. Keais, 255 N.C. 404, 121 S.E. 2d 596.

For the purpose of .showing -the parties derived their titles from a common source, plaintiff offered the deed of 30 July 1927. This deed is recorded, in Book 528, p. 249, Register's Office of Wake County. It then offered…