Larrison v. Walker

JOHNSON, Chief Justice.

In 1865 J. N. Stone, a widower with three children, married Amanda Taylor, a widow with two children. To this union three children were born. The eight children inherited, as community property of J. N. and Amanda Stone, the land here involved, consisting of 221.44 acres (referred to in the record as 230 acres) of the Wilson Robinson Survey in Cass County. Some of the children subsequently died without issue, whereby the inheritance of Mildred Taylor, a child of Amanda Stone by her first husband, was increased to ⅛ of the whole tract, amounting to 27.68 acres undivided…