Efland v. . Efland
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a civil ACTION, tried before Clark, Judge, at February Term, 1886, of Guilfokd Superior Court. Levi Efland died intestate in the county of Guilford in October, 1882, and the plaintiff is his widow and the defendants are his children and heirs at law.
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This was a civil ACTION, tried before Clark, Judge, at February Term, 1886, of Guilfokd Superior Court. Levi Efland died intestate in the county of Guilford in October, 1882, and the plaintiff is his widow and the defendants are his children and heirs at law. The complaint alleges, among other things, that Levi Efland, was, at the time •of his death, and had been for several years previous thereto, in the undisputed possession of two tracts of land described in the complaint. That one of said tracts was sold at public auction about ten years ago by the executors of one George •Smick, and bid…
1Opinion of the Court
Davis, J.,
(after stating the facts). The first exception is to the jurisdiction of the Court. Although the statute (The Code, §2111,) provides that a widow may apply for assignment of dower by petition in the Superior Court, as in other cases of Special Proceedings, and when the application is so made it must be returnable before the clerk, and not to the Superior Court in Term, yet that was not intended to deprive the Superior Court of the equitable jurisdiction, is well established. Campbell v. Murphy, 2 Jones Eq., 359; Jones v. Gerock, 6 Jones Eq., 190. But, as was said by Ashe, J., in…
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