ALLEN v. ALLEN

No. 608.

128 S.E.2d 385 (1962)

258 N.C. 305

Ethel Armstrong ALLEN v. Goliah ALLEN, A. H. Phillips and Wife, Lucille Phillips.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 12, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bryan & Bryan, Dunn, and Robert B. Morgan, Lillington, for petitioner-appellant.

Quillin, Russ & Worth, Fayetteville, for respondent-appellees.


BOBBITT, Justice.

The question for decision is whether the court, after setting aside the report of the commissioners, had authority, based on its own findings as to what would constitute an equitable division, to adjudge a partition of the land different from that made by the commissioners.

Since 1868, the partition of land between tenants in common has been regulated by statute. Haddock v. Stocks, 167 N.C. 70, 74, 83 S.E. 9; Southern Bank v. Leverette, 187...

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