16 N.C. 492
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided December 5, 1830
Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1830-12-05
From Franklin. The Plaintiff alleged that a tract of land, hold in common by a number of persons, was, under an order of the Court of Equity for the county of Franklin, sold by the Clerk and Master, for the purpose of dividing the proceeds among the tenants, instead of making a partition thereof — That at the sale, he, and the Defendant, Jeffreys, purchased it, and executed their joint bonds to secure the purchase money — that the sale was, upon the report of the Master,…
Decided 1830-12-05
¶1 — Upon looking into the hill in this case, it appears, that the petitioners who filed the petition ira the County Court of Franklin, for the sale of the land in question, and in whom the title to the land is stated to be, and the Clerk and Master who sold the said land, are not made party Defendants to the bill. So that the Court, in case the allegations in the bill were fully proved, could not make á final decree in the case for want of parties.
¶2 — Let the bill be dismissed with costs-