BARNES v. DORTCH

No. 326.

95 S.E.2d 872 (1957)

245 N.C. 369

J. R. BARNES and wife, Sadie M. Barnes, v. John J. DORTCH, the Guardian ad litem of the Possible Unknown and Unborn Children of Chester H. Prince, and the Unknown and Unborn Heirs at Law of E. C. Prince.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

January 11, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James N. Smith, Goldsboro, for appellant.

J. Faison Thomson & Son, Goldsboro, for appellees.


DEVIN, Justice.

The petitioners are seeking the sanction of the court for the sale for reinvestment of land in which there are contingent interests in accord with the provisions of the statute, G.S. § 41-11. To achieve this end, on March 12, 1956, they instituted a special proceeding before the clerk. Ch. 96, Session Laws 1951.

This proceeding relates to land known as lot No. 6, which had been allotted to Chester Prince in the partition of the lands devised...

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