Diehl v. Hieronymus

DAVISON, Justice.

The defendant in error, E. D. Hieronymus (plaintiff below) instituted this action in the lower court against the plaintiff in error, Lawrence J. Diehl (defendant) to secure partition of the Northeast Quarter of Section 31, Township 27 North Range 6 East of the I.M., Osage County, Oklahoma. The parties will be referred to by their trial court designation. It is not controverted that plaintiff owned an undivided three-fourths interest and defendant owned an undivided one-fourth interest in the quarter section of land. The partition action was pursuant to the statutory…