Pendleton v. Williams
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil actioN to sell land for partition and reinvestment, part of same being affected by contingent interests, instituted to November Term, 1916, of PasquotaNk; Justice, J. The rights of the parties and respective interests in the property are -chiefly dependent on a certain deed bearing date March, 1883, in which A. L. Pendleton, the owner of the property, and Charles Guirkin, as trustee holding under a trust deed from said Pendlton, to secure two •small claims due from him…
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Civil actioN to sell land for partition and reinvestment, part of same being affected by contingent interests, instituted to November Term, 1916, of PasquotaNk; Justice, J. The rights of the parties and respective interests in the property are -chiefly dependent on a certain deed bearing date March, 1883, in which A. L. Pendleton, the owner of the property, and Charles Guirkin, as trustee holding under a trust deed from said Pendlton, to secure two •small claims due from him to his then wife, Jane Pendleton, conveyed the same to Jane R. Pendleton and others, habendum as follows: “To have and…
1Opinion of the CourtHoke, J.
In a former proceeding concerning this property, Aydlett v. Pendleton et al., 111 N. C., 28, it was adjudged that a sale for partition could not be had on account of contingent estates and interests therein, the recognized rule at that time being correctly stated in the headnotes as follows: “A sale for partition will not be decreed when there are contingent remainders or other conditional interests therein unless all the persons who may be by any possibility interested unite in asking such a decree.”
A like decision was soon thereafter made in Hodges v. Lipscombe, 128 N. C., 57, and the…
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