Butte Creek Island Ranch v. Crim

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• noting that partition by forced judicial sale is “strongly disfavored” and is not available absent proof of the equities of such a result where co-tenants wish to dissolve a co-tenancy
• “Plaintiff ... sought a forced sale of the land in order to acquire defendant’s interest which he did not desire to sell. This is nothing short of the private condemnation of private land for private purposes, a result which is abhorrent to the rights of defendant as a freeholder.”

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