Den on the Demise of Evans v. Satterfield

5 N.C. 413

Opinion

By the Court.

The Defendant has been in possession, claiming under the devise to his wife, fifteen years before the commencement of this suit. When his possession commenced, Jeremiah Coffieid was of full age, and laboured under no disability : so that the only question in the ca?se is, Whether the devise to the Defendant’s wife be such colour of title, that seven years possession under it, bars the right of. entry. The Court are of opinion, that the devise is good colour of title, and that judgment bo given for the Defendant.