Hale v. Thacker

Fox, Judge:

The appellant, Mertie Hale, and the appellee, Reuben Thacker, are the joint owners of a tract of 113 acres of land in Wayne County, inherited from their brother, John Thacker. Various matters relating to the rents and profits of the land in question were involved in the court below, but the question here is limited to the legality of the court’s decree providing for sale of the land and division of the proceeds thereof, rather than its partition in kind.

The decree of the court below directed a sale of the laud and a division of the proceeds thereof equally between the owners. This…