House v. House

This is an action begun as a special proceeding before the Clerk of the Superior Court of Wake County, for the sale of lands for partition.

Mrs. Dorcas Sealey and husband, Wade Sealey, Mrs. Estelle Richards and husband, D. E. Richards, Mrs. Otelia Ferrell and husband, W. R. Ferrell, and Mrs. Metta Straughn, were allowed to intervene and file pleadings.

The interveners allege that the devise of lands to Martha Virginia Paschal, under the will of Thomas Wesley House, was a devise in fee simple and that upon her death, the title to the lands vested in her heirs at law and next of kin.

Thomas Wesley…