Cates v. Duncan

Bell, Justice.

1. The petition not only embraced a statutory application for partition (Cates v. Duncan, 180 Ga. 289, 179 S. E. 121), but it prayed also for an accounting from co-tenants for rents and profits, thus presenting a case in equity. Code of 1933, § 37-301; Andrews v. Murphy, 12 Ga. 431 (4); Huff v. McDonald, 22 Ga. 131 (68 Am. D. 487); Drew v. Drew, 151 Ga. 11 (105 S. E. 469); Keating v. Fuller, 151 Ga. 66 (105 S. E. 844).

2. In a suit in equity for a partition of land and other equitable relief, where some of the defendants filed an answer denying that the applicant was a cotenant,…