Donnell-Smith v. McLean

TYSON, Judge.

*165 Russell E. McLean ("Respondent") appeals from an order confirming the commissioners' report dividing partitioned property among the tenants in common. We affirm the superior court's order.

I. Background

At the time of her death in 1987, Mettie McLean owned approximately 102 acres in fee simple situate in Harnett County (the "property"). Petitioners filed a petition for partition on 28 April 2011, alleging the property was devised to ten of Mettie's children, in equal shares. Petitioners requested the clerk to divide the land in kind and to appoint *166 commissioners to allocate the…