Merchant v. Adair

This is an appeal on questions of law and fact from a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas granting to plaintiff, appellee herein, a writ of partition and an order for accounting by defendant, appellant herein, who is in possession of the premises involved, consisting of a 356-acre farm.

Both sides claim title through Preston Adair, deceased. Defendant Alice Louise Adair, appellant herein, is the surviving spouse of the last surviving child of the'deeedent. Plaintiff, Ruth Melvin Merchant, appellee herein and hereafter referred to as plaintiff, is the great granddaughter of decedent’s sister.…