Gudgell v. Mead

The appellees filed a bill in chancery against the appellant's for a partition of chattels, consisting of an anvil, bellows, vice, hammers, &c.

The appellants demurred to the bill, and their demurrer being overruled, they made no further answer; 'whereupon the court decreed a partition, and appointed commissioners to make it.

From this decree, the appellants appealed to this Court. The question presented by the record is, whether a partition of personal chattels can be decreed by a court of equity, between joint tenants, or tenants in common.

A writ of partition for joint tenants, or tenants in…