Coffey v. Cobb

The plaintiff brought her petition for a decree of specific performance, making, in substance, the following allegations: The defendant, who is the father of petitioner, decided, about four years prior to the bringing of this suit, to make a division of his lands in Murray county among his six children, and executed deeds to two of them for parts of the lands, and turned over the remainder, consisting of 172 acres, to petitioner and her other three brothers, without executing deeds and without specifying as to the interest of each, but he did point out to each of the four where he thought…