Duckworth v. . Duckworth
Supreme Court of North Carolina
PetitioN for sale of lands for division, transferred from Superior Court Clerk and heard before Cooke, J., at April Term, 1907, Superior Court of Transylvania County. Defendants excepted to an order by which the cause was referred for the purpose of stating an account of the estate of William Duckworth, under whom the parties claimed, in order to ascertain whether any of the claimants had been fully advanced, and appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHoke, J.
The plaintiffs file their petition for sale of the lands described therein, claiming that plaintiffs and defendants are tenants in common and own the said lands as heirs at law of William Duckworth, deceased, and as assignees of such heirs at law.
Defendants answer and deny that plaintiffs and defendants are tenants in common, because, as the said answer avers, “The plaintiffs have received their full share of the estate of William Duckworth in real property in the town of Brevard, N. C., and which was received prior to the death of William Duckworth, and defendants aver that they are sole…
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