Section 18 Commissioners

• Library: Real Estate Fundamentals 2011

Rule 96.12 provides that the court shall appoint three commissioners if it renders a judgment of partition in kind. The commissioners are to be compensated as determined by the court, and their compensation and expenses are taxed as costs. Rules 96.12 and 96.30. The commissioners are to give at least ten days’ notice before proceeding to the execution of their duties. Rule 96.14. The commissioners’ duty, as described by statute, is to “divide and set off, by proper metes and bounds, each share of the...