Bullin v. Hancock.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
PetitiON for partition by George Bullin against Mary S. Hancock and others, beard by Judge 0. PL. Allen at the August Term, 1904, of the Superior Court of Subby . County, upon the following case agreed. “Nellie Holyfield, being the owner of the land in controversy in fee, by her last will and testament devised said land to Mima Keile and Sally Bullin for the term of their natural lives, with remainder in fee to the children of Sally Bullin.
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PetitiON for partition by George Bullin against Mary S. Hancock and others, beard by Judge 0. PL. Allen at the August Term, 1904, of the Superior Court of Subby . County, upon the following case agreed. “Nellie Holyfield, being the owner of the land in controversy in fee, by her last will and testament devised said land to Mima Keile and Sally Bullin for the term of their natural lives, with remainder in fee to the children of Sally Bullin. George Bullin, the plaintiff, is one of the said children and was more than 21 years of age at the death of his mother Sally Bullin, which occurred more…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
After stating the case: The only question in this case is whether the plaintiff is tenant in common with the defendants of the land prescribed in the petition. It was properly admitted by the defendants’ counsel that the deed to John Hancock did not pass the interest of the plaintiff in the land as it was executed in his name by L. J. Norman without any authority from him. This being so, the plaintiff upon the facts of the case owns an undivided one eleventh interest in the land as tenant in common with the defendants, unless he has lost that interest by the adverse possession of the…
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