Court Opinion

ID: 3666816
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 06:16:37.410874+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:22:45.557916
License: Public Domain

When there is a disclaimer entered, the plaintiff may take out a writ of possession, of course; as to the part defended for and not disclaimed, you may proceed to try. Also, if you sue for a moiety, you may recover a third; or if for two moieties under different devises, you may recover two-thirds.
NOTE. — Upon the second point, see Bowden v. Evans, post, 222;Hatch v. Thompson, 14 N.C. 411; Huggins v. Ketchum, 20 N.C. 414. On the several demise of one tenant in common, the plaintiff in ejectment may recover his term in the undivided share of that tenant, but the lessor of the plaintiff must, at his peril, take out a writ of possession only for the land to which he has title. Godfrey v. Cartwright, 15 N.C. 487. See, also, Bronson v. Paynter, 20 N.C. 393.
Cited: Graybeal v. Powers, 83 N.C. 563.