Williamson v. . Hartman

It appears that Shadrick Etchison died intestate in the county of Davie in the month of March, 1861. At the Spring Term, 1861, of the late court of equity of that county, his heirs-at-law, one of whom was the appellant in this case, then an infant, filed a petition for the purpose of selling the lands that descended to them from their ancestor named for partition. In that- case, the appellant sued by his next friend, Orrell Etchison. At the term of the court mentioned, the court granted a decree directing a sale of the land according to the prayer of the petitioner.

The land was afterwards…