Ferrall v. . Broadway
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Special PROCEEDING for partition, heard on issues joined before the Clerk, before Clark, Judge, and a jury, at August Term, 1886, of the Superior Court of LENOIR County. The defendant appealed. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
In this proceeding for partition, the petitioners allege that by the death and intestacy of Jesse W. Broadway, the lands described in the petition descended to them and the defendant, his children and heirs at law, as tenants in common. The defendant in her answer, claiming to be sole heir at law of the intestate by his deceased wife, alleges that the petitioners, other than W. B. Ferrall, are the illegitimate offspring of an illicit intercourse kept up after her mother’s death between the intestate and one Elizabeth Oxley, during which they were born, and as such are not entitled to any part…
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