Vick v. . Vick
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Special PROCEEDING for partition of land, transferred from the Clerk to the civil issue docket, and beard before Moore, J., at Spring Term, 1899, of Nash Superior Court. Tbe land sought to be divided was 140 acres owned by Mrs. Gilley Vick, mother of plaintiffs and”defendants, at her death.
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Special PROCEEDING for partition of land, transferred from the Clerk to the civil issue docket, and beard before Moore, J., at Spring Term, 1899, of Nash Superior Court. Tbe land sought to be divided was 140 acres owned by Mrs. Gilley Vick, mother of plaintiffs and”defendants, at her death. The plaintiffs claimed that they were entitled to the entire interest to the exclusion of the two defendants, for the reason, that after their father’s .death, they had by deed conveyed to the defendants all their interest in their father’s land upon their verbal promise to relinquish all interest in their…
1Opinion of the CourtFurches., J.
Tbe plaintiffs and defendants are the children and heirs-at-law. of G-illey Vick, who died intestate, seized of the land in controversy. But the plaintiffs claim that they alone are the equitable owners of the land, and bring this proceeding for partition of the same. They' allege that, while the defendants are children and heirs-at-law of their mother, they are not entitled to any part of this land. They allege that their father, R. Vick, was the owner of a tract of land containing about sixty acres, worth five or six hundred dollars, and their mother, Gilley Vick, was the owner of another…
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