Jackson v. Neal

Job Jackson died in 1854, intestate,seized in fee simple of forty-nine and one-half acres of land-in Grant county, described in the complaint.

He left as his sole heirs Lydia Jackson, his surviving widow, William Jackson, his son, and four other children. The four other children conveyed their interest in the land to their brother, William, whereby he became the owner by descent and conveyances of the undivided two-thirds of the lands mentioned prior to 1868, and his mother, Lydia, by descent, was the owner of the undivided one-third of said land.

While the title was thus held, the land was…