Barrett v. Vickers

CROCKETT, Justice.

This case comes to us after many years of litigation. It was commenced in 1942 by Arliean Vickers Barrett against the defendants, her siblings, seeking either partition, or sale and division of proceeds, of farm land in Juab County which their parents originally contracted to buy from the State. She also sought an accounting for money spent in the purchase and maintenance of the property. Each of the four children had previously been declared owners of an undivided one-fourth interest in the land and charged with the obligations of a contract under which it was being…