Battle v. . Duncan

F. C. Pittman, as executor of James C. Knight, filed in the superior court of Edgecombe, before the clerk, his petition for the sale of certain lands therein described, devised by the testator to the defendant Martha A. Duncan, his daughter, for life or widowhood, and in remainder one-third to the plaintiff, one-third to the defendant Alla W., wife of the defendant John PL Burnett, and the remaining third to the defendants R. E. Duncan and Paul F, Duncan, as tenants in common.

Service having been made upon the devisees and all having put in answers, judgment was rendered in December, 1875,…