Long v. . Holt
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Petition, to rehear a decree and former order by the Court of Equity of Alamance county, in 1868, in a petition of the present plaintiffs, ex parte, for the sale of land for partition, heard before Tourgee, J., at Fall Term, 1872, of the Superior Court of said county. His Honor, upon hearing the petition, answer, affidavits, &c., being of opinion that the plaintiffs, through their own laches, had lost their right to have the order and decree re-heard, dismissed the petition.
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Petition, to rehear a decree and former order by the Court of Equity of Alamance county, in 1868, in a petition of the present plaintiffs, ex parte, for the sale of land for partition, heard before Tourgee, J., at Fall Term, 1872, of the Superior Court of said county. His Honor, upon hearing the petition, answer, affidavits, &c., being of opinion that the plaintiffs, through their own laches, had lost their right to have the order and decree re-heard, dismissed the petition. From this order the plaintiffs appealed. All other facts necessary to an understanding of the point «decided, are…
1Opinion of the CourtSettle, J.
This was a petition brought to the Fall Term, 1860, of the Court of Equity for Alamance county, praying for a sale of the lands of Conrad Long, deceased, and for a division of the proceeds amongst his heirs, some 'of whom were married women.
A sale was made and the report thereof confirmed at ¡Spring Term, 1861; and thereupon an order was made for the collection of the purchase money, but there was no order for the distribution of the same.
In 1866, an order was made upon the Master to report “ what money he had collected, what kind, and from whom,, and whether any and how much was still due…
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