Gillam v. . Edmonson
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from Gouncill, J., at June Term, 1910, of Bueke. Proceedings' instituted before the clerk to partition a small piece of land, transferred to the civil-issue docket. The following plat will indicate and explain the question at issue.
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Appeal from Gouncill, J., at June Term, 1910, of Bueke. Proceedings' instituted before the clerk to partition a small piece of land, transferred to the civil-issue docket. The following plat will indicate and explain the question at issue. The land sought to be divided is the small piece, rectangular in shape and indicated by the letter B, O, D, F, and the right to partition same was made to depend on the correct placing of the divisional line between the lands formerly owned by Milas Edmonson, deceased, lying to the west of it and the adjoining tract to the east, formerly owned by one S. H.…
1Opinion of the CourtHoee, J.
It appeared in evidence that the tract of land lying west of the dividing line formerly belonged to Milas Ed-monson, and on his death plaintiffs and defendants, his children and heirs at law, instituted proceedings for the purpose and same was duly partitioned, the portion lying nearest to an adjoining tract having been allotted to Laura Gillam, one of the petitioners in the present suit, and was set apart to her by metes and bounds, and in which the dividing line between the Milas Edmonson tract and the tract adjoining to the east was recognized and described as being the line B, C, D, E.…
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