Legal Opinion

Woodlief v. Woodlief.

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided October 4, 1904PublishedCited by 8 opinions

AotioN by R. R. Woodlief against T. H. AVoodlief and others, beard by Judge Frederich Moore and a jury, at January Term, 1904, of the Superior Court of FRANKLIN County. From a judgment for the plaintiff the defendant appealed.

1Opinion of the CourtConnor, J.

This was a special proceeding for partition of the land described in the complaint. The defendants filed answers raising issues of fact and the cause was trans-fered to the civil issue docket for trial. There are several branches to the litigation growing out of claims of inter-venors holding mortgages upon shares of some of the parties. The question presented by the record and argued before us bas no connection with these collateral issues and we shall omit any reference to them. The facts in regard to which there seems to be no controversy, are: Henry Merritt died July 4, 1861, devising to…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Caldwell v. . NeelySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1879
  2. Hicks v. . BullockSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1887
  3. Covington v. . StewartSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1877
  4. Day v. . Howard and BakerSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1875
  5. Ward v. . Farmer SoutherlandSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1885

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3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Moore v. BrysonCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 1971
  2. Winstead v. . WoolardSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1944
  3. Brewer v. BrewerSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1953
  4. Cox v. . WrightSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1940
  5. Gentry v. . GentrySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1924

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