Jacobs v. Young

Thompson, Presiding Justice.

We are called upon in these appeals to determine whether the trial court was authorized to order the public sale of land jointly-owned by the parties in the underlying partition action. See OCGA §§ 44-6-166.1; 44-6-167. For the reasons that follow, we find the trial court was authorized to order the public sale of the land at issue and affirm.

Appellant Andrea Brown Jacobs and several family members holding ownership interest in certain undeveloped real property filed a partition action in January 2006 after another family member, Mary Young, refused to sign a…