Bunting v. Cobb

Since the enactment of Chapter 214, section 2, of the Public Laws of 1887, now codified as G.S. 46-23, the owner of a fee or vested remainder in real estate as a joint tenant, or tenant in common, is entitled to a partition of the land or sale for partition of the remainder or reversion thereof. But such partition or sale of a vested remainder in real estate shall not interfere with the possession of the life tenant during the existence of his estate. Moore v. Baker, 222 N.C. 736, 24 S.E. 2d 749; Priddy & Co. v. Sanderford, 221 N.C. 422, 20 S.E. 2d 341; Baggett v. Jackson, 160 N.C. 26, 76…