Dawson v. Dawson

Hines, Justice.

Rayford Turner Dawson died testate on June 6, 1995. A major portion of his estate was composed of 78 acres of real property in Oconee County. The land was left to his eight children, in equal shares, with a life estate given to his wife. Two of Dawson’s children were named executors of his estate; his widow died in 1998.

In 2002, one of the children not named as an executor, Wendell Turner Dawson, brought an action against the executors, seeking an equitable partition of the property and the appointment of a special master to take charge of the real estate, effect a sale of the…