Case ID: nc_216/html/0794-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

RUTH HINTON ALLEY, SOPHIA M. HINTON, CHARLES L. HINTON and THE FIRST & CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK OF ELIZABETH CITY, Guardian for JOHN L. HINTON, Minor, v. ROY McPHERSON, and GERTIE McPHERSON.
    (Filed 27 September, 1939.)
    Appeal by defendants from Carr, J., at January Term, 1939, of Pasquotank.
    No error.
    Civil action to recover damages for trespass upon real property and for injunctive relief against future trespass. Tbe defendants filed a general denial of tbe allegations contained in the complaint. They did not plead adverse possession. Tbe cause was tried before a jury upon appropriate issues, which were answered in favor of the plaintiffs. From judgment on the verdict, the defendants appealed.
    
      J. Kenyon Wilson for plaintiffs, appellees.
    
    
      M. B. Simpson and R. M. Conn for defendants, appellants.
    
   Per Curiam.

The only question debated in the brief of the defendants is that of alleged error by the court below in overruling the motion of the defendants for judgment as of nonsuit. A careful examination of the record discloses that there was sufficient evidence to require the submission of the cause to the jury. In the trial below we find

No error.