Terry v. Baskin

Appellees Morrison, Lewis, and Baskin, instituted this suit for partition of 200 acres of land against the heirs at law of J. M. Terry, deceased. Terry originally owned the land. He was married twice. Of his first marriage there were six children, who are appellants here. Of the second marriage there were five children. Terry died intestate, leaving his second wife and his eleven children surviving him. Some six or more years after Terry's death his widow married one Maples, and a controversy arose between the appellants, children of the first marriage, and the surviving wife of the second…