Brown's Estate

Bolger, J.,

The pleadings are petition for citation, and a citation to show cause why an inquest in partition should not be awarded; answers and demurrers to the answers.

Petitioner is Moses Brown, husband of decedent, to whom the court awarded a one-half interest in his wife’s estate. He now seeks partition of the real estate. Objection is made by two of the devisees. Lonnie Littlejohn, one of them, a friend of the deceased in her lifetime, claims an equitable interest in the realty. The basis of his claim is advancements of large sums of money made by Littlejohn to decedent in her lifetime,…