Lingenfelter v. Carlisle's Admr.

*84Opinion by

Judge Pryor:

Many years since W. T. Carlisle instituted an action in equity in the Kenton Circuit Court against R. M. Carlisle for a partition of a tract of two hundred fifty-six acres of land between the heirs of his father, John Carlisle, or rather asked that his interest be allotted to him.

The defendant, R. M. Carlisle, was also an heir of John Carlisle but claimed to have acquired the absolute title to the land by reason of a conveyance from the sergeant of the general court made to him in a proceeding by the commonwealth against his father for a debt due the state, in which…