Wolcott v. Wigton

Wigton and others filed their petition for the partition of certain lands, making George Wolcott de*45fendant. It is alleged that Mrs. Wigton, the mother of the petitioners, died seized in fee of the lands therein described; that they, as her heirs at law, (except John Wigton,) were, at the time of filing the petition, seized, &c.; that at a sale on execution against John Wigton, the defendant, Wolcott, pm-chased the whole of the land described, but the petitioners aver and insist that Wolcott thereby acquired only the title of John Wigton, viz., one-seventh part inherited by him as heir…