Wilcoxon v. . Donelly

The case comes up from a decree making a final disposition of the controversy in a cause which originated in the year 1860, in the court of equity of Ashe county, for the settlement of the estate of Matthias Poe, and its apportionment among his heirs-at-law — of whom there were two sons and three daughters, one of whom had made an assignment of her share to one E. L. Dugger — and was prosecuted until spring term,. 1883, of the superior court, its successor.

At fall term, 1875, under an order of reference before made, the commissioners, J. W. Todd and Q,. F. Neal, made a report in which they…