Fendley v. Lambert

LAWSON, Justice.

The subject of this litigation is eighty acres of land and four town lots, all in Covington County. The lots are in Andalusia. The subject land is owned by four brothers and four sisters. Each owns an undivided one-eighth interest in the subject land.

For the purpose of this appeal, it can be said that the brothers filed a bill in the Circuit Court of Covington County, in Equity, against their sisters seeking a sale of the land for division, averring that it cannot be equitably divided or partitioned in kind. The sisters, in their answer, denied the material averments of the…