Majors v. Everton

This was a bill in equity, on the chancery side of the circuit court of Clay county, for the partition and assignment of dower in some sixty acres of land.

The bill charges, that in May, 1874, William Howe died intestate, seized of the lands; that he left Rebecca Howe (now Rebecca Majors), his widow, who is entitled to dower in the lands, also six children and a grandchild, Eugene Hicks; that said children were each entitled to one-seventh of the lands; that since the death of William Howe, five of the children conveyed all of their interest in the lands to the other child, Rebecca Everton,…