Sharkey v. Kiernan

This is a suit in partition by plaintiff against defendants brought to the December term, 1884, of the circuit court of the city of St. Louis, Missouri. The petition alleges that plaintiffs and defendants are tenants in common of the described real estate as heirs at law of Catherine McLaughlin, who owned the same in fee-simple and died intestate. On the part of plaintiff, testimony was offered tending to sustain the allegation of the petition and to authorize the decree, from which only one of the defendants, to-wit, said Julia Sharkey, has appealed.

At the trial, said Julia Sharkey, in her…