Cox v. . Ward
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a civil ACTION, tried at Fall Term, 1890, of AlleghaNY Superior Court, before McCorkle, J. This action was for partition of lands, alleged by plaintiff to be held by him and defendant as tenants in constructive possession, each entitled to one individual half interest. The defendant denied plaintiff’s title, and claimed sole seizin in himself and title under seven years’ possession, with color of title, alleging that defendant claimed under one Alex.
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This was a civil ACTION, tried at Fall Term, 1890, of AlleghaNY Superior Court, before McCorkle, J. This action was for partition of lands, alleged by plaintiff to be held by him and defendant as tenants in constructive possession, each entitled to one individual half interest. The defendant denied plaintiff’s title, and claimed sole seizin in himself and title under seven years’ possession, with color of title, alleging that defendant claimed under one Alex. Osborne, who had long since sold to defendant. The jury found that the plaintiff and defendant were tenants in common, each entitled to…
1Opinion of the Court
Avkky, J.:
The plaintiff claimed title to one undivided half of the land in controversy, while the defendant denied that plaintiff owned any interest, and set up sole seizin in himself. Both parties claim title through Moses Dixon, who died in 1857, having devised the land to Wesley Dixon and Preston Phipps, “ to be sold and equally divided ” between his daughters “Lydia, Drucy’s heirs, Jane, Nancy and Polly Adeline.” It was admitted, on the argument, that, in consequence of certain agreements among the devisees, the land was not sold by the executors, and was to be treated, for the purposes…
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