Bearden v. Orr

BROWN, Justice.

This is a bill filed under § 9331 of the Code of 1923, § 186, Tit. 47, Code of 1940, for the sale of lands for division of the proceeds of the sale among the alleged joint owners, on the ground that it can not be equitably divided and partitioned among them.

Some of the defendants, appellants here, deny the alleged joint ownership and assert title in themselves. They also assert that they and those under whom they claim have been in the actual continuous adverse possession of said land for more than twenty years without the recognition of adverse interest.

The Circuit court, on…