Cooey v. Porter

SN.yder, Judge :

William Porter died intestate in 1818 the owner of several tracts of land, among which was a tract of three hundred acres situated in Ohio county, and leaving eight children as his heirs-at-law. Prior to and at the time of his father’s death John Porter, one of said children, was living upon said three hundred acres and he so continued to live thereon until his death in 1859, and his two sons, John and Jackson Porter, the defendants in this suit, have lived thereon ever since. In 1822 said John, the elder, received a deed for the interest of'one of his brothers in said three…