Hill v. Hill

The plaintiff has appealed from a judgment rejecting his demand for annulment of an agreement, dated the 31st of July, 1929, called an act of partition, by which he and the defendants undertook to settle their conflicting claims to 20 acres of land. The land is a part of a tract of 160 acres, for which a patent was issued by the United States government “to Sarepty J. Hill, widow of W. N. Hill,” on the 14th of December, 1895, by virtue of a homestead entry-made by Mrs. Hill’s former husband, W. N. Hill, on the 12th of October, 1872. He died on the 16th of July, 1877, before final proof was…