Brown v. Brown

SOMERVILLE, Judge.

Plaintiff and defendant were, respectively, brother and sister. By inheritance they were owners, in fee simple absolute as tenants in common, of approximately three hundred twenty-four acres of land in Carroll County, Missouri, bordering the town of Norborne.

Plaintiff employed Mr. David Thomas, attorney at law, Carrollton, Missouri, to bring a partition suit. The land was not subject to partition in kind. A special commissioner was appointed and a public sale was held. The price obtained for the land at the public sale was $176,000.00. The court below in its order confirming…