Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Dial

"Willis Dial, father of the defendant Bettie Dial, died intestate about 1893, seized and possessed of 585 acres of land in Pembroke Township, Robeson County, North Carolina, and left surviving him seven children.

These children were all living on the land at the time of their father’s death, and, in 1906, desiring to effect a division in a simple and inexpensive method, they quitclaimed to Peter Dial, Jr., their brother and cotenant, these lands for the sole and specific purpose of dividing the same according to agreed shares. The defendant Bettie Dial, then a young woman, joined in this…