Batts v. Gaylord

This proceeding originated before the clerk superior court under the provision of Chapter 46 of the General Statutes. The petition alleges and the answer admits the four children of W. Y. Gaylord are his heirs at law and that Beulah W. Gaylord is his widow, entitled to dower in the described lands. The children as tenants in common are entitled to have the lands partitioned; that actual partition cannot be had without injury to some of the shares and that a sale, therefore, should be made; the value of the widow’s dower should be computed and paid to her. Under these allegations and…