Weir v. Partridge

THOMAS, Justice.

The bill is for the sale of real property and division of the proceeds among the joint-owners. Incidental features thereof are the necessity for construction of a family agreement, followed by possession, touching the joint real property (the homestead) and for accounting in the ascertainment of the respective rights, titles and interests of the joint-owners.

This court has considered and approved agreements of partition of real property held jointly as “family arrangements,” when the possession was taken thereunder in Betts et al. v. Ward, 196 Ala. 248, 72 So. 110;…