Carson v. . Carson
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ACTION brought before a Clerk of the Superior Court of Gaston county by the.-plaintiffs as heirs of Robert Carson to have the dower of his widow, the defendant Sarah Jane Carson, allotted in the lands described in the complaint, and transferred to and tried before Greene, J., at February Term, 1898, of GrASTON Superior Court, upon an agreed statement of facts set out substantially in the opinion..
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Civil ACTION brought before a Clerk of the Superior Court of Gaston county by the.-plaintiffs as heirs of Robert Carson to have the dower of his widow, the defendant Sarah Jane Carson, allotted in the lands described in the complaint, and transferred to and tried before Greene, J., at February Term, 1898, of GrASTON Superior Court, upon an agreed statement of facts set out substantially in the opinion.. His Honor rendered judgment for the defendants and the plaintiffs appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Douglas, J.:
The facts submitted for the judgment of his Honor show, that Edwai’d, Mary and Margaret Whitesides, Isabella Carson, and Annie Carson, were tenants in common in a tract of land by descent from their brother, who died in the summer of 1849. On the 21st of September, 1849, the said Isabella Carson, executed to Robert Carson, then the husband of said Annie Carson, a deed for her one-fifth undivided interest in the tract of land. On the 22nd of September, 1849, there was a consent partition of the said tract of land by deeds with metes and bounds, and seventy-one acres were allotted…
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