Ober, Attwater & Co. v. Pendleton

Walker, J. :

This is a suit in Chancery, brought in the Arkansas County Circuit Court, by a part of the children and heirs of Robert N. Douglass, against the other heirs of Douglass and those claiming under them, to subject certain lands owned by Robert N. Douglass in his life time, to the payment of certain notes executed by Alfred O. Douglass and William E. Douglass, two of the sons of Robert N. Douglass, to several of his other children.

The material allegations of the bill áre, that on the first day of January, 1857, Robert N. Douglass was the owner of about twelve thousand acres of land in…