Burckel v. Minors

Henry Spellman, an adjudicatee at public sale, appeals from a judgment compelling him to take title.

The only objection urged in this court is

“ that in the proceedings brought by Joseph Burckel and others against the minors, the Court entered a preliminary order upon the answer of the tutor, ordering that a family meeting be convened to fix the terms of the sale of the interest of the minors in the property sought to be partitioned, and, the family meeting have failed to convene, the Court thereupon ex proprio motu in the judgment of partition fixed the terms of the sale for cash; that said…