BENNETT
S. LUNSFORD
PETITION
HEIRS
OF JOHN NORRIS
COURT MINUTES, BOOKS E, F
Minute
Book E, May Term 1866
Bennett
J. Lunsford
Vs
] Partition
Heirs
of Norris
Jurisdiction
Diem
This
cause coming on to be heard on petition ________ and proofs and is approved to
the satisfaction of the court that Benjamin Norris, Andrew J.
Norris, Mary Norris, William Carroll
Norris, Josiah Acuff and the heirs of John Norris,
deceased, representing them present ________________ of John H.
Norris and as such heirs of a tract of land containing 205 Acres and
lying in the State of Tennessee, Lauderdale County, 11th Civil District
and bounded as follows;
Beginning
at a stake 74 east of the N. W. corner of an entry for 153 2/10 Acres made in
the name of O. Baker with west boundary line of a grant for 5000 acres made in
the name of Adam Boyd; runs thence west same Baker’s line 74 poles to his N W
corner, one dead hickory marked O. B.; thence south 28 poles to a horn beam
marked M. H. the N E corner of an entry for 158? Acres thence west 85 poles
with his line to a ____ marked J. H. H. and 3 sweet gum pointers; thence north
of sweet gum marked J. H. H. and 3 sweet gum pointers; thence north of sweet
gum marked J H H 3 sweet gum pointers standing on the bank of Forked Deer
River; thence up same with its meandering and 38 poles to a _____ sycamore
marked H H and 2 pecan pointers; thence east 135 poles to a stake in the west
boundary line of the said 5000 acre tract of Adam Boyd’s, the beginning
containing 200 acres or the same more or less.
And it further appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the Bennett J. Lunsford ______ of the ________ J. Norris his interest in the said land, and it appearing to
the court from the report of the clerk upon an order afore____? To him made
that it would be manifestly for the advantage of all the parties that the land
be sold for partition. It is therefore
ordered that the clerk of this court be and he is hereby appointed a
commissioner to sell the said land after the usual advertisement at he
courthouse door for $50 in cash and the balance upon a credit of eight months
and from the day of sale a lien upon the land being retained and good personal
security being taken to secure the payment; and report to this court his action
in this promises???
Ordered
that court adjourn until ……
S.
A. Thompson
Jas.
Gillespie
S.
M. Glenn
Minute
Book E, July Term 1866, Pages 403-404
Tuesday
Morning,
No. 5
Bennett
S. Lunsford
Vs
Benjamin
F. Norris
Wm C.
Norris
Sarah
Acuff
Andrew
J. Norris
&
Mary J. Norris
Petition for
Be
it remembered and that this cause came on to be finally heard on this the 3rd
day of July, 1866, before the worshipful County court of Lauderdale County,
State of Tennessee, upon the Interlocutory Decision of said court at the June
Term 1866, and the report of the Clerk of said Court, which is in the words and
figures following, to wit;
Commissioners
Report
The undersigned would
report that he sold the land mentioned in the pleadings at public auction,
after having advertised according to the decree in this cause at the court
house door in the Town of Ripley on the 9th day of June 1866 when Bennett
Lunsford became the purchaser for the sum of Four hundred and thirty seven
dollars, he paid fifty dollars in cash, and executed his note for three hundred
and eighty seven dollars eight months after date, and dated the 9th
day of June, 1866, with Jo. C. Marley and John Leird for his securities.
All of which is
Respectfully submitted
George Johnston, Clerk and Commissioner
Which report being
unexcepted to, is in all things, confirmed.
It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed by the court that said
sale be confirmed.
Minute
book E, Pages 566, 567, 568
February
Term, 1867
B. S.
Lunsford
Vs
B. F.
Norris, et al
Final Decree
Be
it remembered that on this the 5th day of February 1867, this cause
came on finally to be heard, upon the report of the commissioner appointed to
sell the land in the pleading mentioned, which report is in the words and
figures following, to wit;
Bennett
S. Lunsford
Vs
Benjamin
F. Norris, et al
Commissioners Report
To the worshipful county
court of
Which leaves in the hands of the Commissioner Two
hundred and ninety three 42/100 dollars subject to the order of this court.
The
said B. S. Lunsford owns one sixth interest, to wit $68.94 1/3 and produced
receipt executed to him by F. F. Norris for one sixth of the net proceeds of
the sale of said land amounting to $68.94 1/3 which two interests added to the
cash _____ (purchase) and the payment on note, amounts to the sum of the
purchase money after deducting the cost in this cause.
Respectfully
submitted
George Johnston,
Clerk and Commissioner
And being no exception to
said report, it is in all things ordered to be ______ that B. S.
Lunsford, the purchaser of the said
lands, has paid the whole of the purchase money, except the two shares. It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed
that all the right, title and interest which the parties to the above said have
in the said land (except the interest of complainant B. S.
Lunsford who is purchaser as aforesaid) which is secured to him by
deed, properly authenticated, and produced in court, be ____ the same is hereby
divested out of them and vested in the said B. S. Lunsford,
and his heirs forever as this record is intended perpetually to testify.
Minute
Book F, March Term 1867
B. S.
Lunsford
Vs
B. F.
Norris, et al
Whereas
a “final” decree was entered in the above cause at the last (February) term of
this court, divesting and vesting the title & c, and whereas it appears
from the report of the commissioner which is embodied in said decree that there
was remaining in his hands the sum of Two Hundred and Ninety Three 42/100
Dollars; and whereas it appearing from said report and decree, that two of the
parties entitled, have received their shares of the proceeds of the land
mentioned & c; It is therefore ordered and decreed that he said
commissioner, George Johnston, upon satisfactory proof as to the parties
entitled to the said sum remaining in his hands, pay the same over to them and
take their receipt for the same.
S.
A. Thompson
J.
D. Hubbard
W.
A. Wood
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